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Abstract We first provide a stochastic formula for the Carathéodory distance in terms of general Markovian couplings and prove a comparison result between the Carathéodory distance and the complete Kähler metric with a negative lower curvature bound using the Kendall–Cranston coupling. This probabilistic approach gives a version of the Schwarz lemma on complete noncompact Kähler manifolds with a further decomposition Ricci curvature into the orthogonal Ricci curvature and the holomorphic sectional curvature, which cannot be obtained by using Yau–Royden's Schwarz lemma. We also prove coupling estimates on quaternionic Kähler manifolds. As a by‐product, we obtain an improved gradient estimate of positive harmonic functions on Kähler manifolds and quaternionic Kähler manifolds under lower curvature bounds.
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Brownian Motions and Heat Kernel Lower Bounds on Kähler and Quaternion Kähler Manifolds
Abstract We study the radial parts of the Brownian motions on Kähler and quaternion Kähler manifolds. Thanks to sharp Laplacian comparison theorems, we deduce as a consequence a sharp Cheeger–Yau-type lower bound for the heat kernels of such manifolds and also sharp Cheng’s type estimates for the Dirichlet eigenvalues of metric balls.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1901315
- PAR ID:
- 10221355
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- International Mathematics Research Notices
- ISSN:
- 1073-7928
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaa199
