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WS 2016/17 17.10.2016 - 10.02.2017
Link to the previous course "Analysis of Elliptic Differential Equations"
1. Analysis
of Elliptic Differential Equations: Fr 03.02.2017
12:00-14:00 V3-201
2. Analysis on
Manifolds: Di
07.02.2017 16:00-18:00 T2-227
Fr 16-18 V4-112 Tutor: Eryan Hu
The problems marked by * are additional. They do bring points to those who solve them but they do not contribute to the maximal possible number of points.
1. Riemannian manifolds
Smooth manifolds and tangent vectors. Submanifolds. Riemannian metric. Riemannian measure.
Divergence theorem. Laplace-Beltrami operator. Weighted manifolds. Product manifolds. Polar coordinates in
Rn
2. Weak Laplace operator and spectrum
Weak gradient and Sobolev spaces on
Riemannian manifolds. Weak Laplacian. Regularity theory. Compact Embedding
Theorem. The Dirichlet problem in precompact domains and its resolvent. The
eigenvalue problem. Positivity of the bottom eigenvalue.
3. The
heat semigroup
Caloric functions. The initial-boundary problem for the heat equation in
precompact domains: uniqueness and existence of solution. The heat semigroup.
Smoothness of solutions. Weak maximum principle for caloric functions. Markovian properties of the heat semigroup.
The heat kernel in precompact domains.
4. The heat kernel on a manifold
Construction of the global heat semigroup by exhaustion. Existence
and smoothness of the heat kernel. Heat kernel as a fundamental solution of the
heat equation. Heat kernels on model manifolds. Heat kernels and change of
measure. The heat kernel in H3.
The heat kernel in S1.
5*. Stochastic completeness
Bounded Cauchy problem and stochastic completeness. Geodesically complete
manifolds. Geodesic balls. Volume test for stochastic completeness. Stochastic
completeness of model manifolds.
6*. Integrated estimates of the heat kernel
The integrated maximum principle with the Gaussian weight. The Davies-Gaffney
inequality. Integrated estimate of the heat kernel. Application to
eigenvalue estimates.