Heat and wave type equations with non-local operators, II. Hilbert spaces and graded Lie groups

TL;DR

This paper develops a comprehensive analysis of heat and wave equations with non-local operators on Hilbert spaces and graded Lie groups, providing explicit solutions, decay rates, and $L^p$-$L^q$ estimates, extending previous results to new settings.

Contribution

It introduces a unified Fourier analysis framework for non-local equations on Hilbert spaces and graded Lie groups, including explicit solutions and decay estimates, expanding prior work on compact Lie groups.

Findings

Explicit solution representations for non-local heat and wave equations.

Decay rate analysis in Sobolev spaces.

Establishment of $L^p$-$L^q$ estimates on graded Lie groups.

Abstract

We study heat and wave type equations on a separable Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ by considering non-local operators in time with any positive densely defined linear operator with discrete spectrum. We show the explicit representation of the solution and analyse the time-decay rate in a scale of suitable Sobolev space. We perform similar analysis on multi-term heat and multi-wave type equations. The main tool here is the Fourier analysis which can be developed in a separable Hilbert space based on the linear operator involved. As an application, the same Cauchy problems are considered and analysed in the setting of a graded Lie group. In this case our analysis relies on the group Fourier analysis. An extra ingredient in this framework allows, in the case of heat type equations, to establish $L^p$-$L^q$ estimates for $1\leqslant p\leqslant 2\leqslant q<+\infty$ for the solutions on graded Lie group groups. Examples and applications of the developed theory are given, either in terms of self-adjoint operators on compact or non-compact manifolds, or in the case of particular settings of graded Lie groups. The results of this paper significantly extend in different directions the results of Part I, where operators on compact Lie groups were considered. We note that the results obtained in this paper are also new already in the Euclidean setting of $\mathbb{R}^n$.