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We consider second-order elliptic partial differential operators acting on sections of vector bundles over a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary, working without the assumption of Laplace-like principal part $-\N^\mu\N_\mu$. Our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ivan G. Avramidi , Thomas Branson

We compute the first 5 terms in the short-time heat trace asymptotics expansion for an operator of Laplace type with transfer boundary conditions using the functorial properties of these invariants.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Gilkey , Klaus Kirsten , Dmitri Vassilevich

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

The heat trace asymptotics are discussed for operators of Laplace type with Dirichlet, Robin, spectral, D/N, and transmittal boundary conditions. The heat content asymptotics are discussed for operators with time dependent coefficients and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter B. Gilkey , Klaus Kirsten , JeongHyeong Park , Dmitri Vassilevich

A new algebraic approach for calculating the heat kernel for the Laplace operator on any Riemannian manifold with covariantly constant curvature is proposed. It is shown that the heat kernel operator can be obtained by an averaging over the…

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

We consider the heat-kernel expansion of the massive Laplace operator on the three dimensional ball with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Using this example, we illustrate a very effective scheme for the calculation of an (in principle)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 K. Kirsten , M. Bordag

Let $P$ be an operator of Dirac type and let $D=P^2$ be the associated operator of Laplace type. We impose spectral boundary conditions and study the leading heat content coefficients for $D$.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Gilkey , K. Kirsten , JH. Park

We develop a new method for the calculation of the heat trace asymptotics of the Laplacian on symmetric spaces that is based on a representation of the heat semigroup in form of an average over the Lie group of isometries and obtain a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Ivan G Avramidi

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 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 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

We consider a quantum graph where the operator contains a potential. We show that this operator admits a heat kernel. Under some assumptions on the potential, this heat kernel admits an asymptotic expansion at t=0 with coefficients that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-13 Ralf Rueckriemen

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

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

The heat kernel expansion for a general non--minimal operator on the spaces $C^\infty (\Lambda^k)$ and $C^\infty (\Lambda^{p,q})$ is studied. The coefficients of the heat kernel asymptotics for this operator are expressed in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergei Alexandrov , Dmitri Vassilevich

We discuss the heat content asymptotics associated with the heat flow out of a smooth compact manifold in a larger compact Riemannian manifold. Although there are no boundary conditions, the corresponding heat content asymptotics involve…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-27 M. van den Berg , P. Gilkey

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 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 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 weighted heat trace asymptotics of an operator of Laplace type with Dirichlet boundary conditions where the weight function exhibits radial blowup. We give formulas for the first few terms in the expansion in terms of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-03 M. van den Berg , P. Gilkey , K. Kirsten , R. Seeley