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We calculate the coefficient $a_5$ of the heat kernel asymptotics for an operator of Laplace type with mixed boundary conditions on a general compact manifold.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. Branson , P. B. Gilkey , K. Kirsten , D. V. Vassilevich

We calculate the heat-kernel coefficients, up to $a_2$, for a U(1) bundle on the 4-Ball for boundary conditions which are such that the normal derivative of the field at the boundary is related to a first-order operator in boundary…

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

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

We prove qualitatively sharp heat kernel bounds in the setting of Fourier-Bessel expansions when the associated type parameter $\nu$ is half-integer. Moreover, still for half-integer $\nu$, we also obtain sharp estimates of all kernels…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Adam Nowak , Luz Roncal

We present a formalism for computing arbitrary multi-loop Feynman graphs in curved spacetime using the heat kernel approach. To this end, we compute the off-diagonal components of the heat kernel in Riemann normal coordinates up to second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-09 Igor Carneiro , Gero von Gersdorff

We compute the heat kernel coefficients that are needed for the regularization and renormalization of massive gravity. Starting from the Stueckelberg action for massive gravity, we determine the propagators of the different fields (massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 Renata Ferrero , Markus B. Fröb , William C. C. Lima

In the sub-Riemannian manifolds, on the one hand, following Baudoin-Garofalo \cite{BaudoinGarofalo}, the upper bound for heat kernels associated to a class of locally subelliptic operators are given under the generalized curvature-dimension…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Huai Qian LI

We present a method for the calculation of the $a_{3/2}$ heat kernel coefficient of the heat operator trace for a partial differential operator of Laplace type on a compact Riemannian manifold with oblique boundary conditions. Using special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. Dowker , K. Kirsten

We consider heat kernel for higher-order operators with constant coefficients in $d$-dimensio\-nal Euclidean space and its asymptotic behavior. For arbitrary operators which are invariant with respect to $O(d)$-rotations we obtain exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 W. Wachowski , P. I. Pronin

In this work we construct the heat kernel of the 1/2-order Laplacian perturbed by the first-order gradient term in H\"older space and the zero-order potential term in generalized Kato's class, and obtain sharp two-sided estimates as well as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Longjie Xie , Xicheng Zhang

Working within the framework of the covariant perturbation theory, we obtain the coincidence limit of the heat kernel of an elliptic second order differential operator that is applicable to a large class of quantum field theories. The basis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Yuri V. Gusev

Kernel Estimation provides an unbinned and non-parametric estimate of the probability density function from which a set of data is drawn. In the first section, after a brief discussion on parametric and non-parametric methods, the theory of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Kyle S. Cranmer

In this paper, first we consider the uniform complex time heat kernel estimates of $e^{-z(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}}$ for $\alpha>0, z\in \mathbb{C}^+$. When $\frac{\alpha}{2}$ is not an integer, generally the heat kernel doest not have…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Shiliang Zhao , Quan Zheng

Being motivated by physical applications (as the phi^4 model) we calculate the heat kernel coefficients for generalised Laplacians on the Moyal plane containing both left and right multiplications. We found both star-local and star-nonlocal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri V. Vassilevich

Covariant perturbation expansion is an important method in quantum field theory. In this paper an expansion up to arbitrary order for off-diagonal heat kernels in flat space based on the covariant perturbation expansion is given. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-06 Yu-Zi Gou , Wen-Du Li , Ping Zhang , Wu-Sheng Dai

We demonstrate a relationship between the heat kernel on a finite weighted Abelian Cayley graph and Gaussian functions on lattices. This can be used to prove a new inequality for the heat kernel on such a graph: when $t \leq t'$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Thomas McMurray Price

We analyze the spectra of general non-minimal second-order operators. To do this, we derive the local part of the trace of the second Seeley-DeWitt heat kernel coefficient for such operators in a completely model-independent way.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Dario Sauro

Using our recently proposed covariant algebraic approach the heat kernel for a Laplace-like differential operator in low-energy approximation is studied. Neglecting all the covariant derivatives of the gauge field strength (Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 I. G. Avramidi

Heat kernel methods are useful for studying properties of quantum gravity. We recompute here the first three heat kernel coefficients in perturbative quantum gravity with cosmological constant to ascertain which ones are correctly reported…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Roberto Bonezzi , Marco Melis

In this note, we compute the Hadamard coefficients of (algebraically) integrable Schrodinger operators in two dimensions. These operators first appeared in [BL] and [B] in connection with Huygens' principle, and our result completes, in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-19 Yuri Berest , Tim Cramer , Farkhod Eshmatov