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The trace of the heat kernel is expanded in a basis of nonlocal curvature invariants of $N$th order. The coefficients of this expansion (the nonlocal form factors) are calculated to third order in the curvature inclusive. The early-time and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 A. O. Barvinsky , Yu. V. Gusev , G. A. Vilkovisky , V. V. Zhytnikov

We study the relationship between the geometry and the Laplace spectrum of a Riemannian orbifold O via its heat kernel; as in the manifold case, the time-zero asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel furnishes geometric information about O.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-21 Emily B. Dryden , Carolyn S. Gordon , Sarah J. Greenwald , David L. Webb

In his celebrated article, Aronson established Gaussian bounds for the fundamental solution to the Cauchy problem governed by a second order divergence form operator with uniformly elliptic coefficients. We extend Aronson's proof of upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Moritz Kassmann , Marvin Weidner

The short-time heat kernel expansion of elliptic operators provides a link between local and global features of classical geometries. For many geometric structures related to (non-)involutive distributions, the natural differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Shantanu Dave , Stefan Haller

We suggest a systematic calculational scheme for heat kernels of covariant nonminimal operators in causal theories whose characteristic surfaces are null with respect to a generic metric. The calculational formalism is based on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Alexey E. Kalugin , Władysław Wachowski

We show that not feeling the boundary estimates for heat kernels hold for any non-negative self-adjoint extension of the Laplace operator acting on vector-valued compactly supported functions on a domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$. They are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Liangpan Li , Alexander Strohmaier

The heat kernels of Laplacians for spin 1/2, 1, 3/2 and 2 fields, and the asymptotic expansion of their traces are studied on manifolds with conical singularities. The exact mode-by-mode analysis is carried out for 2-dimensional domains and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Dmitri V. Fursaev , Gennaro Miele

We study second-order elliptic partial differential operators acting on sections of vector bundles over a compact manifold with boundary with a non-scalar positive definite leading symbol. Such operators, called non-Laplace type operators,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 Ivan G. Avramidi

The regularized trace of the heat kernel of a one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator with a singular two-particle contact interaction being of Lieb-Liniger type is considered. We derive a complete small-time asymptotic expansion in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Sebastian Egger

For $d\geq 2$, we establish the existence and uniqueness of heat kernels for a large class of time-dependent second order diffusion operator with jumps, which is the sum of time-dependent of a second order elliptic differential operators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Zhen-Qing Chen , Eryan Hu , Longjie Xie , Xicheng Zhang

In this paper we establish the existence and uniqueness of heat kernels to a large class of time-inhomogenous non-symmetric nonlocal operators with Dini's continuous kernels. Moreover, quantitative estimates including two-sided estimates,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Zhen-Qing Chen , Xicheng Zhang

We study the heat kernel for the Laplace type partial differential operator acting on smooth sections of a complex spin-tensor bundle over a generic $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold. Assuming that the curvature of the U(1) connection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-05 Ivan G. Avramidi , Guglielmo Fucci

The main results of the article are short time estimates and asymptotic estimates for the first two order derivatives of the logarithmic heat kernel of a complete Riemannian manifold. We remove all curvature restrictions and also develop…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Xin Chen , Xue Mei Li , Bo Wu

A diagramatic heat kernel expansion technique is presented. The method is especially well suited to the small-derivative expansion of the heat kernel, but it can also be used to reproduce the results obtained by the approach known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ian G Moss , Wade Naylor

The paper deals with point-wise estimates for the heat kernel of a nonlocal convolution type operator with a kernel that decays at least exponentially at infinity. It is shown that the large time behaviour of the heat kernel depends…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Alexander Grigoryan , Yury Kondratiev , Andrey Piatnitski , Elena Zhizhina

We consider the heat-kernel expansion of the massive Laplace operator on the three dimensional ball with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Using this example, we illustrate a very effective scheme for the calculation of an (in principle)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 K. Kirsten , M. Bordag

We consider the heat equation associated with a class of second order hypoelliptic H\"{o}rmander operators with constant second order term and linear drift. We describe the possible small time heat kernel expansion on the diagonal giving a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Davide Barilari , Elisa Paoli

We study the spectral geometry of an operator of Laplace type on a manifold with a singular surface. We calculate several first coefficients of the heat kernel expansion. These coefficients are responsible for divergences and conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. B. Gilkey , K. Kirsten , D. V. Vassilevich

The heat kernel in curved space-time is computed to fourth order in a strict expansion in the number of covariant derivatives. The computation is made for arbitrary non abelian gauge and scalar fields and for the Riemann connection in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. L. Salcedo

We build a systematic calculational method for the covariant expansion of the two-point heat kernel $\hat K(\tau|x,x')$ for generic minimal and non-minimal differential operators of any order. This is the expansion in powers of dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-31 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Wladyslaw Wachowski