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Heat invariants of Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We calculate heat invariants of arbitrary Riemannian manifolds without boundary. Every heat invariant is expressed in terms of powers of the Laplacian and the distance function. Our approach is based on a multi-dimensional generalization of the Agmon-Kannai method. An application to computation of the Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy is also presented.

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@article{arxiv.math/9905073,
  title  = {Heat invariants of Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Iosif Polterovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9905073},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Revised version. Main result is greatly simplified and presented in an invariant form. An application to computation of KdV hierarchy is added