Heat Kernel for Simply-Connected Riemann Surfaces
Differential Geometry
2010-08-02 v1 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
From the uniformization theorem, we know that every Riemann surface has a simply-connected covering space. Moreover, there are only three simply-connected Riemann surfaces: the sphere, the Euclidean plane, and the hyperbolic plane. In this paper, we collect the known heat kernels, or Green's functions, for these three surfaces, and we derive the differential forms heat kernels as well. Then we give a method for using the heat kernels on the universal cover to generate the heat kernel on the underlying surface.
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@article{arxiv.1007.5467,
title = {Heat Kernel for Simply-Connected Riemann Surfaces},
author = {Trevor H. Jones and Dan Kucerovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.5467},
year = {2010}
}