Equality of critical exponents for metric measure spaces with the same heat-kernel exponents

Let (M1,d1,\Greekmath01161)(M_1,d_1,{\Greekmath 0116}_1) and (M2,d2,\Greekmath01162)(M_2,d_2,{\Greekmath 0116}_2) be metric measure spaces admitting heat kernels satisfying the heat kernel estimate (hk), with the same exponents \Greekmath010B{\Greekmath 010B} and \Greekmath010C{\Greekmath 010C}^*. The quantities \Greekmath011Bp{\Greekmath 011B}_p^* and \Greekmath011Bp#{\Greekmath 011B}_p^{\#} are the critical exponents defined for these spaces. Equality conjecture. Is it true that

\Greekmath011Bp(M1,d1,\Greekmath01161)=\Greekmath011Bp(M2,d2,\Greekmath01162),{\Greekmath 011B}_p^*(M_1,d_1,{\Greekmath 0116}_1)={\Greekmath 011B}_p^*(M_2,d_2,{\Greekmath 0116}_2), \Greekmath011Bp#(M1,d1,\Greekmath01161)=\Greekmath011Bp#(M2,d2,\Greekmath01162),{\Greekmath 011B}_p^{\#}(M_1,d_1,{\Greekmath 0116}_1)={\Greekmath 011B}_p^{\#}(M_2,d_2,{\Greekmath 0116}_2),

and

\Greekmath011Bp(M1,d1,\Greekmath01161)=\Greekmath011Bp#(M1,d1,\Greekmath01161)?{\Greekmath 011B}_p^*(M_1,d_1,{\Greekmath 0116}_1)={\Greekmath 011B}_p^{\#}(M_1,d_1,{\Greekmath 0116}_1)?

The question asks whether these critical exponents depend only on the common heat-kernel exponents and whether the two definitions of the critical exponent coincide. The source presents this as an open problem; no resolution is given.

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Primary source

Jin Gao, Zhenyu Yu and Junda Zhang, “Heat kernel-based p-energy norms on metric measure spaces”, arXiv:2303.10414 (2026).

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