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Curvature Dimension Inequalities and Subelliptic Heat Kernel Gradient Bounds on Contact Manifolds

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We study curvature dimension inequalities for the sub-Laplacian on contact Riemannian manifolds. This new curvature dimension condition is then used to obtain:

  • Geometric conditions ensuring the compactness of the underlying manifold (Bonnet–Myers type results);

  • Volume estimates of metric balls;

  • Gradient bounds and stochastic completeness for the heat semigroup generated by the sub-Laplacian;

  • Spectral gap estimates.

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    Fabrice Baudoin & Jing Wang

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First author was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS 0907326.

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Baudoin, F., Wang, J. Curvature Dimension Inequalities and Subelliptic Heat Kernel Gradient Bounds on Contact Manifolds. Potential Anal 40, 163–193 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11118-013-9345-x

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