We study the small-time asymptotics of the heat content of smooth non-characteristic domains of a general rank-varying sub-Riemannian structure, equipped with an arbitrary smooth measure. By adapting to the sub-Riemannian case a technique due to Savo, we establish the existence of the full asymptotic series: QΩ(t)=∑k=0∞aktk/2,as t→0. We compute explicitly the coefficients up to order k=5, in terms of sub-Riemannian invariants of the domain. Furthermore, we prove that every coefficient can be obtained as the limit of the corresponding one for a suitable Riemannian extension. As a particular case we recover, using non-probabilistic techniques, the order 2 formula recently obtained by Tyson and Wang in the Heisenberg group [48]. A consequence of our fifth-order analysis is the evidence for new phenomena in presence of characteristic points. In particular, we prove that the higher order coefficients in the asymptotics can blow-up in their presence. A key tool for this last result is an exact formula for the distance from a specific surface with an isolated characteristic point in the Heisenberg group, which is of independent interest.

Heat content asymptotics for sub-Riemannian manifolds / Rizzi, L.; Rossi, T.. - In: JOURNAL DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES. - ISSN 0021-7824. - 148:(2021), pp. 267-307. [10.1016/j.matpur.2020.12.004]

Heat content asymptotics for sub-Riemannian manifolds

Rizzi, L.;Rossi, T.
2021-01-01

Abstract

We study the small-time asymptotics of the heat content of smooth non-characteristic domains of a general rank-varying sub-Riemannian structure, equipped with an arbitrary smooth measure. By adapting to the sub-Riemannian case a technique due to Savo, we establish the existence of the full asymptotic series: QΩ(t)=∑k=0∞aktk/2,as t→0. We compute explicitly the coefficients up to order k=5, in terms of sub-Riemannian invariants of the domain. Furthermore, we prove that every coefficient can be obtained as the limit of the corresponding one for a suitable Riemannian extension. As a particular case we recover, using non-probabilistic techniques, the order 2 formula recently obtained by Tyson and Wang in the Heisenberg group [48]. A consequence of our fifth-order analysis is the evidence for new phenomena in presence of characteristic points. In particular, we prove that the higher order coefficients in the asymptotics can blow-up in their presence. A key tool for this last result is an exact formula for the distance from a specific surface with an isolated characteristic point in the Heisenberg group, which is of independent interest.
2021
148
267
307
http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01666v3
Rizzi, L.; Rossi, T.
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