English

Stochastic Taylor expansions and heat kernel asymptotics

Probability 2009-07-17 v1

Abstract

These notes focus on the applications of the stochastic Taylor expansion of solutions of stochastic differential equations to the study of heat kernels in small times. As an illustration of these methods we provide a new heat kernel proof of the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0907.2711,
  title  = {Stochastic Taylor expansions and heat kernel asymptotics},
  author = {Fabrice Baudoin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2711},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Lecture notes of a course given in June 2009 at the Spring school of Mons

R2 v1 2026-06-21T13:25:26.758Z