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About the convergence to initial data of the heat problem on the Heisenberg group

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Integrability conditions on initial data ensure heat solutions on the Heisenberg group converge almost everywhere to the data as time goes to zero in weighted Lebesgue spaces.

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The paper determines integrability conditions on the initial data f that guarantee the existence of solutions for the heat problem on the Heisenberg group. Building on this, it characterizes the weighted Lebesgue spaces in which these solutions converge almost everywhere to the initial data as time approaches zero. It further establishes the boundedness of the local maximal function associated with the heat kernel under these weights. A sympathetic reader would care because this specifies the function spaces where the heat flow on the Heisenberg group recovers its starting data.

Core claim

The paper claims that integrability conditions on the initial datum f ensure existence of solutions to the heat problem on the Heisenberg group, that the solutions converge almost everywhere to f as time tends to zero precisely in certain weighted Lebesgue spaces, and that the local maximal function associated to the heat kernel is bounded in the corresponding weighted spaces.

What carries the argument

The heat kernel on the Heisenberg group, which defines the solution semigroup and generates the local maximal function used to control convergence in weighted spaces.

Load-bearing premise

The heat kernel satisfies the standard positivity, symmetry, and semigroup properties that support maximal-function bounds and passage to the limit as time approaches zero.

What would settle it

An initial datum satisfying the integrability condition in a weighted Lebesgue space for which the corresponding heat solution fails to converge almost everywhere to the datum as time goes to zero.

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We find integrability conditions on the initial data $f$ for the existence of solutions of the Heat problem on the Heisenberg group. From this result we characterize the weighted Lebesgue spaces for which the solutions exists a.e. when the time goes to zero. Finally we also obtain boundedness of the local maximal function associated to the heat kernel with weights.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript claims to derive integrability conditions on initial data f for existence of solutions to the heat equation on the Heisenberg group. It then characterizes the weighted Lebesgue spaces in which these solutions converge almost everywhere to f as t approaches 0. Finally, it asserts boundedness of the local maximal function associated to the heat kernel in the weighted setting.

Significance. If the claims are rigorously established with the required kernel estimates, the work would extend classical results on heat-kernel convergence and weighted maximal operators from Euclidean space to the Heisenberg group (homogeneous dimension Q=4). This could provide useful tools for harmonic analysis on stratified groups, particularly for weighted a.e. convergence questions.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the characterization of weighted Lebesgue spaces for a.e. convergence as t→0 and the boundedness of the local maximal function both rest on the heat kernel satisfying positivity, symmetry, semigroup properties plus Gaussian bounds adapted to Q=4 and A_p conditions w.r.t. Haar measure. The abstract invokes these from prior literature without indicating where (or whether) the weighted estimates are verified or proved in the manuscript; this is load-bearing for both the characterization and the maximal-function claim.
  2. [Results on weighted convergence (likely §3 or §4)] The passage to the t→0 limit a.e. in weighted spaces (central to the second claim) requires explicit control on the difference between the solution and f; without stated error estimates or confirmation that the kernel satisfies the necessary integral bounds in the weighted setting, the characterization cannot be assessed.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: grammatical error ('the solutions exists a.e.' should read 'the solution exists a.e.').

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make to strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the characterization of weighted Lebesgue spaces for a.e. convergence as t→0 and the boundedness of the local maximal function both rest on the heat kernel satisfying positivity, symmetry, semigroup properties plus Gaussian bounds adapted to Q=4 and A_p conditions w.r.t. Haar measure. The abstract invokes these from prior literature without indicating where (or whether) the weighted estimates are verified or proved in the manuscript; this is load-bearing for both the characterization and the maximal-function claim.

    Authors: The abstract summarizes the main results, which rely on the standard heat kernel properties (positivity, symmetry, semigroup law, and Gaussian bounds with respect to the homogeneous dimension Q=4) established in the literature for the Heisenberg group. These are cited in the introduction and used in Sections 3 and 4 to derive the weighted estimates under A_p conditions with respect to Haar measure. We will revise the abstract to explicitly reference the relevant prior results (e.g., the Gaussian bounds from [specific citations in the paper]) and indicate that the weighted A_p boundedness of the maximal operator is proved in the manuscript using these kernel estimates. This clarification will be added without altering the claims. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results on weighted convergence (likely §3 or §4)] The passage to the t→0 limit a.e. in weighted spaces (central to the second claim) requires explicit control on the difference between the solution and f; without stated error estimates or confirmation that the kernel satisfies the necessary integral bounds in the weighted setting, the characterization cannot be assessed.

    Authors: The characterization in the relevant sections proceeds from the integrability conditions on f established in Section 2, combined with the pointwise convergence via the maximal function. The difference |u(t,x) - f(x)| is controlled using the semigroup property and the Gaussian upper bounds on the kernel, which yield the necessary integral estimates in the weighted L^p spaces under the A_p condition. We agree that making these error estimates more explicit would improve readability. We will add a short paragraph or remark in Section 3 detailing how the weighted integral bounds on the kernel difference follow from the known Gaussian estimates and the A_p property, confirming the a.e. convergence. revision: yes

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No significant circularity; results rest on standard external heat-kernel properties

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The abstract and described claims derive integrability conditions, weighted-space characterizations, and local maximal-function bounds from the heat kernel's positivity, symmetry, and semigroup properties, which are explicitly attributed to prior literature rather than defined or fitted inside the paper. No equations or steps reduce by construction to the paper's own inputs, no self-citations are load-bearing, and no ansatz or uniqueness result is smuggled via self-reference. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

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