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Sharp Li–Yau inequalities for Dunkl harmonic oscillators

  • Huaiqian Li and Bin Qian EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: January 27, 2023

Abstract

We study the Li–Yau inequality for the heat equation corresponding to the Dunkl harmonic oscillator, which is a nonlocal Schrödinger operator parameterized by reflections and multiplicity functions. In the particular case when the reflection group is isomorphic to 2 d , the result is sharp in the sense that equality is achieved by the heat kernel of the classic harmonic oscillator. We also provide the application on parabolic Harnack inequalities.


Communicated by Maria Gordina


Award Identifier / Grant number: 11831014

Funding statement: The first named author would like to acknowledge the Department of Mathematics and the Faculty of Science at Ryerson University for financial support and the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11831014). The second named author would like to acknowledge the financial support from Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu.

Acknowledgements

The first named author would like to thank Dr. Niushan Gao for helpful discussions. The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to the anonymous referee for his/her careful reading and valuable suggestion.

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Received: 2022-07-29
Revised: 2022-12-09
Published Online: 2023-01-27
Published in Print: 2023-03-01

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