Drift diffusion equations with fractional diffusion on compact Lie groups

Abstract

AbstractIn this work we investigate the well-posed for diffusion equations associated to subelliptic pseudo-differential operators on compact Lie groups. The diffusion by strongly elliptic operators is considered as a special case and in particular the fractional diffusion with respect to the Laplacian. The general case is studied within the Hörmander classes associated to a sub-Riemannian structure on the group (encoded by a Hörmander system of vector fields). Applications to diffusion equations for fractional sub-Laplacians, fractional powers of more general subelliptic operators and the corresponding quasi-geostrophic model with drift D are investigated. Examples on $$\text {SU}(2)$$ SU ( 2 ) for diffusion problems with fractional diffusion are analysed.