Jean-Philippe Anker made an interesting conjecture in [2] about the growth of the heat kernel on symmetric spaces of noncompact type. For any symmetric space of noncompact type, we can write
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where ϕ0 is the Legendre function and q, "the dimension at infinity", is chosen such that limt—>∞Vt(x) = 1 for all x. Anker's conjecture can be stated as follows: there exists a constant C > 0 such that
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where
is the set of positive indivisible roots. The behaviour of the function ϕ0 is well known (see [1]).
The main goal of this paper is to establish the conjecture for the spaces SU*(2n)/ Sp(n).