ON THE FIRST BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR HYPOELLIPTIC EVOLUTION EQUATIONS: PERRON-WIENER SOLUTIONS AND CONE-TYPE CRITERIA

For every bounded open set in mathbb{R}^{N+1}, we study the first boundary problem for a wide class of hypoelliptic evolution operators. The operators are assumed to be endowed with a well behaved global fundamental solution that allows us to construct a generalized solution in the sense of Perron-Wiener of the Dirichlet problem. Then, we give a criterion of regularity for boundary points in terms of the behavior, close to the point, of the fundamental solution of the involved operator. We deduce exterior cone-type criteria for operators of Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck-type, for the heat operators and more general evolution invariant operators on Lie groups. Our criteria extend and generalize the classical parabolic-cone condition for the classical heat operator due to Effros and Kazdan. The results presented are contained in [K16].