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We analyze the asymptotic behaviour of the heat kernel defined by a stochastically perturbed geodesic flow on the cotangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold for small time and small diffusion parameter. This extends WKB-type methods to a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-12-26 Sergio Albeverio , Astrid Hilbert , Vassily Kolokoltsov

A functorial derivation is presented of a heat-kernel expansion coefficient on a manifold with a singular fixed point set of codimension two. The existence of an extrinsic curvature term is pointed out.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 J. S. Dowker

In this paper we analyze the small-t asymptotic expansion of the trace of the heat kernel associated with a Laplace operator endowed with a spherically symmetric polynomially confining potential on the unbounded, d-dimensional Euclidean…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Guglielmo Fucci

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

We derive large time upper bounds for heat kernels on vector bundles of differential forms on a class of non-compact Riemannian manifolds under certain curvature conditions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thierry Coulhon , Qi S. Zhang

In this paper we provide a lower bound for the long time on-diagonal heat kernel of minimal submanifolds in a Cartan-hadamard ambient manifold assuming that the submanifold is of polynomial volume growth. In particular cases, that lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Vicent Gimeno

We give a short proof of a strong version of the short time asymptotic expansion of heat kernels associated to Laplace type operators acting on sections of vector bundles over compact Riemannian manifolds, including exponential decay of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Matthias Ludewig

We prove the existence and uniqueness of the Robin heat kernel on compact Riemannian manifolds with smooth boundary for Robin parameter $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$, expressed as a spectral expansion in terms of Robin eigenvalues and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Yifeng Meng , Kui Wang

The first heat kernel coefficients are calculated for a dispersive ball whose permittivity at high frequency differs from unity by inverse powers of the frequency. The corresponding divergent part of the vacuum energy of the electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , K. Kirsten

We give a short overview of the effective action approach in quantum field theory and quantum gravity and describe various methods for calculation of the asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel for second-order elliptic partial differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivan Avramidi

We prove heat kernel estimates for the $\bar\partial$-Neumann Laplacian acting in spaces of differential forms over noncompact, strongly pseudoconvex complex manifolds with a Lie group symmetry and compact quotient. We also relate our…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-29 Joe J. Perez , Peter Stollmann

The paper is devoted to a local heat kernel, which is a special part of the standard heat kernel. Locality means that all considerations are produced in an open convex set of a smooth Riemannian manifold. We study such properties and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 A. V. Ivanov

The problem of recovering geometric properties of a domain from the trace of the heat kernel for an initial-boundary value problem arises in NMR microscopy and other applications. It is similar to the problem of ``hearing the shape of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Schuss , A. Spivak

We consider the Hodge Laplacian on manifolds with incomplete edge singularities, with infinite dimensional von Neumann spaces and intricate elliptic boundary value theory. We single out a class of its algebraic self-adjoint extensions. Our…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Boris Vertman

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 a 1991 paper by Buttig and Eichhorn, the existence and uniqueness of a differential forms heat kernel on open manifolds of bounded geometry was proven. In that paper, it was shown that the heat kernel obeyed certain properties, one of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-02 Trevor H. Jones

The covariant technique for calculating the heat kernel asymptotic expansion for an elliptic differential second order operator is generalized to manifolds with boundary. The first boundary coefficients of the asymptotic expansion which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan G. Avramidi

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-02 Trevor H. Jones , Dan Kucerovsky

The high temperature asymptotics of thermodynamic functions of electromagnetic field subjected to boundary conditions with spherical and cylindrical symmetries are constructed by making use of a general expansion in terms of heat kernel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bordag , V. V. Nesterenko , I. G. Pirozhenko

We study reflected jump diffusions on Ahlfors regular domains in general metric measure spaces. Under the condition that the Dirichlet form on the ambient space satisfies a capacity upper bound estimate, we construct an extension operator…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Shiping Cao , Zhen-Qing Chen