American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2012, 11(5): 1587-1614. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.1587

Lie groups related to Hörmander operators and Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck equations

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Piazza di Porta San Donato, 5 - 40126 Bologna, Italy, Italy

Received  January 2011 Revised  January 2012 Published  March 2012

If $\mathcal{L}=\sum_{j=1}^m X_j^2+X_0$ is a Hörmander partial differential operator in $\mathbb{R}^N$, we give sufficient conditions on the $X_j$'s for the existence of a Lie group structure $\mathbb{G}=(\mathbb{R}^N,*)$, not necessarily nilpotent, such that $\mathcal{L}$ is left invariant on $\mathbb{G}$. We also investigate the existence of a global fundamental solution $\Gamma$ for $\mathcal{L}$, providing results ensuring a suitable left invariance property of $\Gamma$. Examples are given for operators $\mathcal{L}$ to which our results apply: some are new, some appear in recent literature, usually quoted as Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck type operators.
Citation: Andrea Bonfiglioli, Ermanno Lanconelli. Lie groups related to Hörmander operators and Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck equations. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2012, 11 (5) : 1587-1614. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.1587
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