@article{KellerLenzMuenchetal.2016, author = {Keller, Matthias and Lenz, Daniel and M{\"u}nch, Florentin and Schmidt, Marcel and Telcs, Andras}, title = {Note on short-time behavior of semigroups associated to self-adjoint operators}, series = {Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society}, volume = {48}, journal = {Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0024-6093}, doi = {10.1112/blms/bdw054}, pages = {935 -- 944}, year = {2016}, abstract = {We present a simple observation showing that the heat kernel on a locally finite graph behaves for short times t roughly like t(d), where d is the combinatorial distance. This is very different from the classical Varadhan-type behavior on manifolds. Moreover, this also gives that short-time behavior and global behavior of the heat kernel are governed by two different metrics whenever the degree of the graph is not uniformly bounded.}, language = {en} }