The relative heat content associated with a subset ⊂ M of a sub-Riemannian manifold is defined as the total amount of heat contained in at time t, with uniform initial condition on , allowing the heat to flow outside the domain. We obtain a fourth-order asymptotic expansion in the square root of t of the relative heat content associated with relatively compact noncharacteristic domains. Compared to the classical heat content that was studied by Rizzi and Rossi (J. Math. Pures Appl. ( 9) 148 (2021), 267-307), several difficulties emerge due to the absence of Dirichlet conditions at the boundary of the domain. To overcome this lack of information, we combine a rough asymptotics for the temperature function at the boundary, coupled with stochastic completeness of the heat semigroup. Our technique applies to any (possibly rank-varying) sub-Riemannian manifold that is globally doubling and satisfies a global weak Poincaré inequality, including in particular sub-Riemannian structures on compact manifolds and Carnot groups. 1. Introduction 2997 2. Preliminaries 3004 3. Small-time asymptotics of u(t, x) at the boundary 3009 4. First-order asymptotic expansion of H (t) 3013 5. Higher-order asymptotic expansion of H (t) 3018 6. An alternative approach using the heat kernel asymptotics 3024 7. The noncompact case 3027 Appendix: Iterated Duhamel's principle for I φ(t, 0) 3030 Acknowledgments 3035 References 3036 MSC2020: 35R01, 53C17, 58J60.
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