H\"older regularity for weak solutions of H\"ormander type operators

Abstract

Motivated by recent results on the (possibly conditional) regularity for time-dependent hypoelliptic equations, we prove a parabolic version of the Poincar\'e inequality, and as a consequence, we deduce a version of the classical Moser iteration technique using in a crucial way the geometry of the equation. The point of this contribution is to emphasize that one can use the {\sl elliptic} version of the Moser argument at the price of the lack of uniformity, even in the {\sl parabolic } setting. This is nevertheless enough to deduce H\"older regularity of weak solutions. The proof is elementary and unifies in a natural way several results in the literature on Kolmogorov equations, subelliptic ones and some of their variations.