Kernel estimates for elliptic operators with second order

discontinuous coefficients- Part 2

Luigi Negro
(Joint work with G. Metafune and C. Spina)

Dipartimento di Matematica “Ennio De Giorgi”

Università del Salento
Lecce, Italy.
The operator

For a > 0, b, c ∈ R, we consider the elliptic operator

N
X xi xj x b
L = ∆ + (a − 1) 2
Dij + c 2 · ∇ − 2 .
|x| |x| |x|
i,j=1

t
We write a(x) := I + (a − 1) x|x|·x2 , γ= N−1+c
a − N + 1 and we consider

the weighted space L2µ = L2 (RN , dµ) with dµ = |x|γ dx.

The operator

For a > 0, b, c ∈ R, we consider the elliptic operator

N
X xi xj x b
L = ∆ + (a − 1) 2
Dij + c 2 · ∇ − 2 .
|x| |x| |x|
i,j=1

t
We write a(x) := I + (a − 1) x|x|·x2 , γ= N−1+c
a − N + 1 and we consider

the weighted space L2µ = L2 (RN , dµ) with dµ = |x|γ dx.

b N−1+c−a 2


If D := a + 2a ≥ 0 −L is the operator associated with the
closure of the nonnegative and symmetric form in L2µ
Z  
b
a(u, v ) := ha∇u, ∇v i + 2 uv dµ, D(a) := Cc∞ (RN \ {0}).
RN |x|
The following theorem summarizes the main result of these talks.
Theorem
If D ≥ 0 −L generates a positive semigroup e t L of integral operators.
The heat kernel p, with respect to the measure dµ = |y |γ dy , satisfies
  − N +1+√D
− N2 − γ2 − γ2 |x| |y | 2 c|x−y |2
p(t, x, y ) ' t |x| |y | 1 ∧1 1 ∧ 1 e− t .
t2 t2
The constant c > 0 may differ in the upper and lower bounds.

The symbol f ' g means that there are two positive constants C1 , C2 such
that C1 g (x) ≤ f (x) ≤ C2 g (x) for every x where f , g are defined.