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Adopting the powerful methods introduced in \cite{li2021carnotcaratheodory, LZ2025}, we investigate the asymptotic behaviour at infinity for the heat kernel associated with the Grushin operator $\Delta_G = \Delta_x + |x|^2 \Delta_u$ on $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yimeng Chen , Hong-Quan Li , Jun-Cheng Tang , Jia-Yu Yang

We study the fifth term in the asymptotic expansion of the heat operator trace for a partial differential operator of Laplace type on a compact Riemannian manifold with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas P. Branson , Peter B. Gilkey , Dmitri V. Vassilevich

By applying the covariant Taylor expansion method, the fifth lower coefficients the asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel associated with a fermion of spin 1/2 in Riemann-Cartan space are manifestly given. These coefficients in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Yajima , Y. Higasida , K. Kawano , S. -I. Kubota

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 heat coefficients related to the Laplace-Beltrami operator defined on the hyperbolic compact manifold $H^3/\Ga$ are evaluated in the case in which the discrete group $\Ga$ contains elliptic and hyperbolic elements. It is shown that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Guido Cognola , Luciano Vanzo

In Random Matrix Theory the local correlations of the Laguerre and Jacobi Unitary Ensemble in the hard edge scaling limit can be described in terms of the Bessel kernel (containing a parameter $\alpha$). In particular, the so-called hard…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Torsten Ehrhardt

We show that the small-time asymptotics of the sub-Riemannian heat kernel, its derivatives, and its logarithmic derivatives can be localized, allowing them to be studied even on incomplete manifolds, under essentially optimal conditions on…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Robert W. Neel , Ludovic Sacchelli

For a sub-Riemannian manifold provided with a smooth volume, we relate the small time asymptotics of the heat kernel at a point $y$ of the cut locus from $x$ with roughly "how much" $y$ is conjugate to $x$. This is done under the hypothesis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Davide Barilari , Ugo Boscain , Robert W. Neel

We study the spectral properties of the Laplace type operator on the circle. We discuss various approximations for the heat trace, the zeta function and the zeta-regularized determinant. We obtain a differential equation for the heat kernel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-18 Ivan G Avramidi

We give optimal bounds for the radial, space and time derivatives of arbitrary order of the heat kernel of the Laplace--Beltrami operator on Damek--Ricci spaces. In the case of symmetric spaces of rank one, these complete and actually…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Tommaso Bruno , Federico Santagati

In the present paper, we study the asymptotics of the Fredholm determinant $D(x,s)$ of the finite-temperature deformation of the sine kernel, which represents the probability that there is no particles on the interval $(-x/\pi,x/\pi)$ in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Shuai-Xia Xu

In this paper we provide the small-time heat kernel asymptotics at the cut locus in three relevant cases: generic low-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, generic 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifolds (close to the starting point) and generic 4D…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Davide Barilari , Ugo Boscain , Grégoire Charlot , Robert W. Neel

In this paper, we study the heat kernel associated to the intrinsic sublaplacian on a quaternionic contact manifold considered as a subriemannian manifold. More precisely, we explicitly compute the first two coefficients $c_0$ and $c_1$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Abdellah Laaroussi

This is the first of two articles in which we define an elliptically degenerating family of hyperbolic Riemann surfaces and study the asymptotic behavior of the associated spectral theory. Our study is motivated by a result from \cite{He…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-01 Daniel Garbin , Jay Jorgenson

In the bulk scaling limit of the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble of Hermitian matrices the probability that an interval of length $s$ contains no eigenvalues is the Fredholm determinant of the sine kernel $\sin(x-y)\over\pi(x-y)$ over this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Harold Widom

The formulation of gauge theories on compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary leads to partial differential operators with Gilkey--Smith boundary conditions, whose peculiar property is the occurrence of both normal and tangential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ivan G. Avramidi , Giampiero Esposito

In a rigorous construction of the path integral for supersymmetric quantum mechanics on a Riemann manifold, based on B\"ar and Pf\"affle's use of piecewise geodesic paths, the kernel of the time evolution operator is the heat kernel for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dana Fine , Stephen Sawin

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

The Zaremba boundary-value problem is a boundary value problem for Laplace-type second-order partial differential operators acting on smooth sections of a vector bundle over a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary but with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Avramidi

For a class of Laplace exponents we derive the heat trace asymptotics of the generator of the corresponding subordinate Brownian motion on Euclidean space. The terms in the asymptotic expansion are found to depend both on the geometry of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Matthias Fahrenwaldt