Volume Doubling, Poincaré Inequality and Gaussian Heat Kernel Estimate for Non-negatively Curved Graphs

Publication Date

10-17-2017

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

Mathematics

Keywords

Heat equation, Curvature-dimension, Gaussian heat kernel

Abstract

By studying the heat semigroup, we prove Li-Yau type estimates for bounded and positive solutions of the heat equation on graphs, under the assumption of the curvature-dimension inequality CDE0 (n, 0), which can be consider as a notion of curvature for graphs. Furthermore, we derive that if a graph has non-negative curvature then it has the volume doubling property, from this we can prove the Gaussian estimate for heat kernel, and then Poincar´e inequality and Harnack inequality. As a consequence, we obtain that the dimension of space of harmonic functions on graphs with polynomial growth is finite, which original is a conjecture of Yau on Riemannian manifold proved by Colding and Minicozzi. Under the assumption of positive curvature on graphs, we derive the Bonnet-Myers type theorem that the diameter of graphs is finite and bounded above in terms of the positive curvature by proving some Log Sobolev inequalities.

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