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Gradient estimates and heat kernel estimates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Zhongmin Qian
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Institute, Shanghai Institute of Railway Technology, 1 Zhennan Road, Shanghai 200333, People's Republic of China

Extract

In the first part of this paper, Yau's estimates for positive L-harmonic functions and Li and Yau's gradient estimates for the positive solutions of a general parabolic heat equation on a complete Riemannian manifold are obtained by the use of Bakry and Emery's theory. In the second part we establish a heat kernel bound for a second-order differential operator which has a bounded and measurable drift, using Girsanov's formula.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1995

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