The Heat Flow on Metric Random Walk Spaces

In this paper we study the Heat Flow on Metric Random Walk Spaces, which unifies into a broad framework the heat flow on locally finite weighted connected graphs, the heat flow determined by finite Markov chains and some nonlocal evolution problems. We give different characterizations of the ergodic...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2019-12
Main Authors: Mazon, José M, Solera, Marcos, Toledo, Julián
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Curvature
Ergodic processes
Heat transfer
Heat transmission
Inequalities
Inequality
Markov chains
Random walk
Random walk theory
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Summary:In this paper we study the Heat Flow on Metric Random Walk Spaces, which unifies into a broad framework the heat flow on locally finite weighted connected graphs, the heat flow determined by finite Markov chains and some nonlocal evolution problems. We give different characterizations of the ergodicity and prove that a metric random walk space with positive Ollivier-Ricci curvature is ergodic. Furthermore, we prove a Cheeger inequality and, as a consequence, we show that a Poincar\'{e} inequality holds if, and only if, an isoperimetric inequality holds. We also study the Bakry-\'{E}mery curvature-dimension condition and its relation with functional inequalities like the Poincar\'{e} inequality and the transport-information inequalities.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1806.01215