Asymptotics of parabolic Green’s functions on lattices

Abstract

For parabolic spatially discrete equations, we consider Green's functions, also known as heat kernels on lattices. We obtain their asymptotic expansions with respect to powers of time variable $t$ up to an arbitrary order and estimate the remainders uniformly on the whole lattice. The spatially discrete (difference) operators under consideration are finite-difference approximations of continuous strongly elliptic differential operators (with constant coefficients) of arbitrary even order in $\mathbb R^d$ with arbitrary $d\in\mathbb N$. This genericity, besides numerical and deterministic lattice-dynamics applications, allows one to obtain higher-order asymptotics of transition probability functions for continuous-time random walks on $\mathbb Z^d$ and other lattices.