Pointwise convergence for the heat equation on tori $\mathbb T^n$ and waveguide manifold $\mathbb T^n \times \mathbb R^m$

Abstract: We completely characterize the weighted Lebesgue spaces on the torus $\mathbb T^n$ and waveguide manifold $\mathbb T^n \times \mathbb R^m$ for which the solutions of the heat equation converge pointwise (as time tends to zero) to the initial data. In the process, we also characterize the weighted Lebesgue spaces for the boundedness of maximal operators on the torus and waveguide manifold, which may be of independent interest.