A Sub-Gaussian estimate for Dirichlet Heat Kernels on Tubular Neighbourhoods and Tightness of Conditional Brownian Motion

Abstract

We prove tightness of a family of path measures $\nu_{\varepsilon}$ on tubes $L(\varepsilon)$ of small diameters around a closed and connected submanifold $L$ of another Riemannian manifold $M$. Together with a convergence result for Dirichlet semigroups on tubular neighbourhoods, that implies weak convergence of the measures as the tube radius $\varepsilon$ tends to zero to a measure supported by the path space of the submanifold. As a consequence, we obtain weak convergence of the measures obtained by conditioning Brownian motion to stay within the tubes $L(\varepsilon)$ up to a finite time $T>0$, and we identify the limit measure.