A geometric approach to on-diagonal heat kernel lower bounds on groups

Annales de l'Institut Fourier

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1763-1827

  Coulhon, Thierry ^a   Grigor'yan, Alexander ^b   Pittet, Christophe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Finitely generated groups; First eigenvalue for the Dirichlet problem; F ner sets; Heat kernels on manifolds; Lie groups; Random walks on graphs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041075470     PISSN: 03730956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5802/aif.1874     Document Type: Article

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