Alexander Bendikov — Page 2

arXiv2009

The heat semigroup and Brownian motion on strip complexes

We introduce the notion of strip complex. A strip complex is a special type of complex obtained by gluing "strips" along their natural boundaries according to a given graph structure. The most familiar example is the one dimensional complex classically associated with a graph, in which case the strips are simply copies of the unit interval (our setup actually allows for variable edge length). A leading key example is treebolic space, a geometric object studied in a number of recent articles, which arises as a horocyclic product of a metric tree with the hyperbolic plane. In this case, the graph is a regular tree, the strips are the closed unit interval times the real line, and each strip is equipped with the hyperbolic geometry of a specific strip in upper half plane. We consider natural families of Dirichlet forms on a general strip complex and show that the associated heat kernels and harmonic functions have very strong smoothness properties. We study questions such as essential selfadjointness of the underlying differential operator acting on a suitable space of smooth functions satisfying a Kirchoff type condition at points where the strip complex bifurcates. Compatibility with projections that arise from proper group actions is also considered.

math.PR↗

arXiv2007

Limit theorems on locally compact Abelian groups

We prove limit theorems for row sums of a rowwise independent infinitesimal array of random variables with values in a locally compact Abelian group. First we give a proof of Gaiser's theorem, since it does not have an easy access and it is not complete. This theorem gives sufficient conditions for convergence of the row sums, but the limit measure can not have a nondegenerate idempotent factor. Then we prove necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence of the row sums, where the limit measure can be also a nondegenerate Haar measure on a compact subgroup. Finally, we investigate special cases: the torus group, the group of p-adic integers and the p-adic solenoid.

math.PR↗

arXiv2004

Nash type inequalities for fractional powers of non-negative self-adjoint operators

Assuming that a Nash type inequality is satisfied by a non-negative self-adjoint operator $A$, we prove a Nash type inequality for the fractional powers $A^α$ of $A$. Under some assumptions, we give ultracontractivity bounds for the semigroup $(T_{t,α})$ generated by $-A^α$.

math.SP↗