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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

Let $G$ be a simple, finite graph and let $p_t(x,y)$ denote the heat kernel on $G$. The purpose of this short note is to show that for $t \rightarrow 0^+$ $$ p_t(x,y) = \# \left\{\mbox{paths of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Stefan Steinerberger

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 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 consider Schroedinger operators on compact and non-compact (finite) metric graphs. For such operators we analyse their spectra, prove that their resolvents can be represented as integral operators and introduce trace-class…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 Jens Bolte , Sebastian Egger , Ralf Rueckriemen

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

It is well-known that the asymptotic expansion of the trace of the heat kernel for Laplace operators on smooth compact Riemmanian manifolds can be obtained through termwise integration of the asymptotic expansion of the on-diagonal heat…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 Guglielmo Fucci

We describe the small-time heat kernel asymptotics of real powers $\Delta^r$, $r \in (0,1)$ of a non-negative self-adjoint generalized Laplacian $\Delta$ acting on the sections of a hermitian vector bundle $\mathcal E$ over a closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Cipriana Anghel

Let $X$ be an abstract orientable not necessarily compact CR manifold of dimension $2n+1$, $n\geq1$, and let $L^k$ be the $k$-th tensor power of a CR complex line bundle $L$ over $X$. Suppose that condition $Y(q)$ holds at each point of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Chin-Yu Hsiao , Weixia Zhu

We explicitly construct a heat kernel as a Neumann series for certain function spaces, such as $L^{1}$, $L^{2}$, and Hilbert spaces, associated to a locally compact Hausdorff space $\mathfrak{X}$ with Borel $\sigma$-algebra $\mathcal{B}$,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Palle Jorgensen , Jay Jorgenson , Lejla Smajlovic

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

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

In this paper we develop the parametrix approach for constructing the heat kernel on a graph $G$. In particular, we highlight two specific cases. First, we consider the case when $G$ is embedded in a Eulidean domain or manifold $\Omega$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Gautam Chinta , Jay Jorgenson , Anders Karlsson , Lejla Smajlović

We construct the heat kernel on curvilinear polygonal domains in arbitrary surfaces for Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin boundary conditions as well as mixed problems, including those of Zaremba type. We compute the short time asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Medet Nursultanov , Julie Rowlett , David A. Sher

The heat kernel associated with an elliptic second-order partial differential operator of Laplace type acting on smooth sections of a vector bundle over a Riemannian manifold, is studied. A general manifestly covariant method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Ivan G. Avramidi

In this paper, we introduce heat kernel coupling (HKC) as a method of constructing multimodal spectral geometry on weighted graphs of different size without vertex-wise bijective correspondence. We show that Laplacian averaging can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Michael M. Bronstein , Klaus Glashoff

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

We introduce a method of constructing a general Laakso space while calculating the spectrum and multiplicities of the Laplacian operator on it. Using this information, we found the leading term of the trace of the heat kernel of a Laakso…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-02-25 Matthew Begue , Levi DeValve , David Miller , Benjamin Steinhurst

In the manifold setting, we provide a series of spectral convergence results quantifying how the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian converge to the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-23 David B Dunson , Hau-Tieng Wu , Nan Wu

We study the heat kernel of the sub-Laplacian L on the CR sphere S2n+1. An explicit and geometrically meaningful formula for the heat kernel is obtained. As a by-product we recover in a simple way the Green function of the conformal sub-…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Fabrice Baudoin , Jing Wang