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We suggest a new technique of the asymptotic heat kernel expansion for minimal higher derivative operators of a generic $2M$-th order, $F(\nabla)=(-\Box)^M+\cdots$, in the background field formalism of gauge theories and quantum gravity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-03 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Alexander V. Kurov , Władysław Wachowski

Let us consider a time-dependent differential operator quadratic with respect to the phase variables. Let us consider a multiplication operator defined with the help of a "small" matrix-valued function. Under suitable conditions, we give an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Thierry Harge

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

Let $G$ be a connected semisimple Lie group, and $G_0$ be its connected split real form. In this paper, we deduce explicit expressions for the heat kernels $\rho^{G_0}_t$ associated with the Laplace--Beltrami operators $\Delta_{G_0}$ and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Masafumi Shimada

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

We consider the heat equation $u_t=Lu$ where $L$ is a second-order difference operator in a discrete variable $n$. The fundamental solution has an expansion in terms of the Bessel functions of imaginary argument. The coefficients…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Plamen Iliev

We provide a new and completely general formalism to compute the effective field theory matching contributions from integrating out massive fields in a manifestly gauge covariant way, at any desired loop order. The formalism is based on old…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-28 Gero von Gersdorff , Kevin Santos

Among the available perturbative approaches in quantum field theory, heat kernel techniques provide a powerful and geometrically transparent framework for computing effective actions in nontrivial backgrounds. In this work, resummation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , C. García-Pérez , F. D. Mazzitelli , S. Pla , V. Vitagliano

In this paper, we demonstrate that not only the heat kernel techniques are useful for computation of the parity anomaly, but also the parity anomaly turns out to be a powerful mean in studying the heat kernel. We show that the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-28 Maxim Kurkov , Lorenzo Leone

We consider rough metrics on smooth manifolds and corresponding Laplacians induced by such metrics. We demonstrate that globally continuous heat kernels exist and are H\"older continuous locally in space and time. This is done via local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Lashi Bandara , Paul Bryan

We consider a self-adjoint non-negative operator $H$ in a Hilbert space $\mathsf{L}^2(X,{\rm d}\mu)$. We assume that the semigroup $(\mathrm{e}^{-t H})_{t>0}$ is defined by an integral kernel, $p$, which allows an estimate of the form…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Jochen Brüning , Batu Güneysu

We consider the heat semi-group generated by the Laplace operator on metric trees. Among our results we show how the behavior of the associated heat kernel depends on the geometry of the tree. As applications we establish new eigenvalue…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-02 Rupert L. Frank , Hynek Kovarik

Computer algebra methods are applied to investigation of spectral asymptotics of elliptic differential operators on curved manifolds with torsion and in the presence of a gauge field. In this paper we present complete expressions for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Vladimir V. Kornyak

Wavelet bases and frames consisting of band limited functions of nearly exponential localization on Rd are a powerful tool in harmonic analysis by making various spaces of functions and distributions more accessible for study and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Thierry Coulhon , Gerard Kerkyacharian , Pencho Petrushev

In this paper, we study an asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel for a Laplace operator on a smooth Riemannian manifold without a boundary at enough small values of the proper time. The Seeley-DeWitt coefficients of this decomposition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 A. V. Ivanov , N. V. Kharuk

Asymptotic heat kernel expansion for nonminimal differential operators on curved manifolds in the presence of gauge fields is considered. The complete expressions for the fourth coefficient E_4 in the heat kernel expansion for such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Valery P. Gusynin , Vladimir V. Kornyak

Networks constitute fundamental organizational structures across biological systems, although conventional graph-theoretic analyses capture exclusively pairwise interactions, thereby omitting the intricate higher-order relationships that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-23 Sixtus Dakurah

The main goal of this paper is to generalize the Sobolev-type inequalities given by Guo-Phong-Song-Sturm and Guedj-T\^o from the case of functions to the framework of twisted differential forms. To this end, we establish certain estimates…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Fusheng Deng , Gang Huang , Xiangsen Qin

It is known that the couple formed by the two dimensional Brownian motion and its L\'evy area leads to the heat kernel on the Heisenberg group, which is one of the simplest sub-Riemannian space. The associated diffusion operator is…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Dominique Bakry , Fabrice Baudoin , Michel Bonnefont , Djalil Chafai

We establish a new formula for the heat kernel on regular trees in terms of classical I-Bessel functions. Although the formula is explicit, and a proof is given through direct computation, we also provide a conceptual viewpoint using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Gautam Chinta , Jay Jorgenson , Anders Karlsson