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The transcendent part of the Drinfeld p-adic upper half plane is shown to be a Polish space. Using Radon measures associated with regular differential 1-forms invariant under Schottky groups allows to construct self-adjoint diffusion…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Patrick Erik Bradley

Not only the Dirac operator, but also the spinor bundle of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold depends on the underlying metric. This leads to technical difficulties in the study of problems where many metrics are involved, for instance in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Olaf Müller , Nikolai Nowaczyk

In order to reconcile the wave-function collapse in quantum mechanics with the finiteness of signals' propagation in general relativity, we delve into a stochastic version of the Ricci flow and study its non-relativistic limit in presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-20 Matteo Lulli , Antonino Marciano , Kristian Piscicchia

In this letter we present the calculation of the $a_{5}$ heat kernel coefficient of the heat operator trace for a partial differential operator of Laplace type on a compact Riemannian manifold with Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Klaus Kirsten

Suppose $G$ is a compact Lie group, $H$ is a closed subgroup of $G$, and the homogeneous space $G/H$ is connected. The paper investigates the Ricci flow on a manifold $M$ diffeomorphic to $[0,1]\times G/H$. First, we prove a short-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Artem Pulemotov

Whenever an It\^o-Wentsel type of formula holds for composition of flows of a certain differential dynamics, there exists locally a decomposition of the corresponding flow according to complementary distributions (or foliations, in the case…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Pedro Catuogno , Lourival Lima , Paulo Ruffino

This is a survey paper focusing on the interplay between the curvature and topology of a Riemannian manifold. The first part of the paper provides a background discussion, aimed at non-experts, of Hopf's pinching problem and the Sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-01 S. Brendle , R. M. Schoen

We introduce the Random Quadratic Form (RQF): a stochastic differential equation which formally corresponds to the gradient flow of a random quadratic functional on a sphere. While the one-point dynamics of the system is a Brownian motion…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Maximilian Engel , Anna Shalova

Consider the following nonlinear one-dimensional stochastic fractional heat equation $$\frac{\partial }{\partial t}u(t, x)= -(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u(t, x) +\sigma(t,x,u(t,x)) \dot{W}(t, x), $$ where $-(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ is the fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Bin Qian , Ran Wang

In the holographic model of Dirac semimetals being the Einstein-Maxwell scalar gravity with the auxiliary $U(1)$-gauge field, coupled to the ordinary Maxwell one by {\it kinetic mixing } term, the black brane response to the electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-09 Marek Rogatko

We show that any closed $n$-dimensional manifold $(M,g)$ can be embedded by a map constructed using the heat kernels of the connection Laplacian as well as a maps constructed using truncated heat kernel at a certain time $t$ from a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Chen-Yun Lin

Fractals define a new and interesting realm for a discussion of basic phenomena in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. This interest results from specific properties of fractals, e.g., their dilatation symmetry and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-26 Eric Akkermans

We extend some aspects of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory to the category of stochastic Hamiltonian dynamical systems. More specifically, we show that the stochastic action satisfies the Hamilton-Jacobi equation when, as in the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-06 Joan-Andreu Lázaro-Camí , Juan-Pablo Ortega

A variational phase space is constructed for a compact and piecewise flat Riemannian manifold. An extended action functional is provided such that the variational dynamics generate a symplectic flow on the phase space. This symplectic flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Brenden McDearmon

In this paper, we consider the Laplacian G_2 flow on a closed seven-dimensional manifold M with a closed G_2-structure. We first obtain the gradient estimates of positive solutions of the heat equation under the Laplacian G_2 flow and then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Chuanhuan Li , Yi Li , Kairui Xu

We study the heat kernel for a Laplace type partial differential operator acting on smooth sections of a complex vector bundle with the structure group $G\times U(1)$ over a Riemannian manifold $M$ without boundary. The total connection on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 Ivan G. Avramidi , Guglielmo Fucci

We prove that, for a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold, the Ricci flow is obtained by a Wiener process.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 Marco Frasca

Let $X$ be a smooth, compact, projective K\"ahler variety and $D$ be a divisor of a holomorphic form $F$, and assume that $D$ is smooth up to codimension two. Let $\omega$ be a K\"ahler form on $X$ and $K_{X}$ the corresponding heat kernel…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-26 James Cogdell , Jay Jorgenson , Lejla Smajlovic

A damped oscillator heat bath model is a modification of the standard heat bath model, wherein each bath oscillator itself has a Markovian coupling to its own heat bath [1]. We modify such a model to one where the resulting damping of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-20 Thomas Guff , Andrea Rocco

Following Donaldson's oppenness theorem on deforming a conical K\"ahler-Einstein metric, we prove a parabolic Schauder-type estimate with respect to conical metrics. As a corollary, we show that the conical K\"ahler-Ricci Flow exists for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-02 Xiuxiong Chen , Yuanqi Wang