Generalized Maximum Principles and Stochastic Completeness for Pseudo-Hermitian Manifolds

摘要

In this paper,the authors establish a generalized maximum principle for pseudo-Hermitian manifolds.As corollaries,Omori-Yau type maximum principles for pseudo-Hermitian manifolds are deduced.Moreover,they prove that the stochastic completeness for the heat semigroup generated by the sub-Laplacian is equivalent to the validity of a weak form of the generalized maximum principles.Finally,they give some applications of these generalized maximum principles.