Geometric and Potential Theoretic Results on Lie Groups

Varopoulos, N. Th.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 52 (2000) no. 2, pp. 412-437

Résumé

The main new results in this paper are contained in the geometric Theorems 1 and 2 of Section 0.1 below and they are related to previous results of M. Gromov and of myself (cf. [11], [29]). These results are used to prove some general potential theoretic estimates on Lie groups (cf. Section 0.3) that are related to my previous work in the area (cf. [28], [34]) and to some deep recent work of G. Alexopoulos (cf. [3], [4]).

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2000-019-x

Mots-clés : 22E30, 43A80, 60J60, 60J65

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