Boundary behavior of positive solutions of the heat equation on a stratified Lie group

Abstract

In this article, we are concerned with a certain type of boundary behavior of positive solutions of the heat equation on a stratified Lie group at a given boundary point. We prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the parabolic limit of a positive solution u at a point on the boundary is the existence of the strong derivative of the boundary measure of u at that point. Moreover, the parabolic limit and the strong derivative are equal. We also construct an example of a positive measure on the Heisenberg group to show that the set of all points where strong derivative exists is strictly larger than the set of Lebesgue points of the measure.