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The high temperature asymptotics of the Helmholtz free energy 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

We establish small-time asymptotic expansions for heat kernels of hypoelliptic H\"ormander operators in a neighborhood of the diagonal, generalizing former results obtained in particular by M\'etivier and by Ben Arous. The coefficients of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Yves Colin de Verdière , Luc Hillairet , Emmanuel Trélat

We obtain two-sided heat kernel estimates for Riemannian manifolds with ends with mixed boundary condition, provided that the heat kernels for the ends are well understood. These results extend previous results of Grigor'yan and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Emily Dautenhahn , Laurent Saloff-Coste

In this paper we compute the coefficients of the heat kernel asymptotic expansion for Laplace operators acting on scalar functions defined on the so called spherical suspension (or Riemann cap) subjected to Dirichlet boundary conditions. By…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Guglielmo Fucci , Klaus Kirsten

Let $P$ be an operator of Dirac type on a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary. We impose spectral boundary conditions and study the asymptotics of the heat trace of the associated operator of Laplace type.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. B. Gilkey , K. Kirsten

We study the heat kernel for an operator of Laplace type with a $\delta$-function potential concentrated on a closed surface. We derive the general form of the small $t$ asymptotics and calculate explicitly several first heat kernel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , D. V. Vassilevich

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

For incomplete sub-Riemannian manifolds, and for an associated second-order hypoelliptic operator, which need not be symmetric, we identify two alternative conditions for the validity of Gaussian-type upper bounds on heat kernels and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Ismael Bailleul , James Norris

The study of spectral properties of natural geometric elliptic partial differential operators acting on smooth sections of vector bundles over Riemannian manifolds is a central theme in global analysis, differential geometry and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Ivan G. Avramidi

The regularized trace of the heat kernel of a one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator with a singular two-particle contact interaction being of Lieb-Liniger type is considered. We derive a complete small-time asymptotic expansion in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Sebastian Egger

In this paper, we use probabilistic approach to prove that there exists a unique weak solution to the Dirichlet boundary value problem for second order elliptic equations whose coefficients are signed measures, and we will give a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Saisai Yang , Tusheng Zhang

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 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

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

One of the principal topics of this paper concerns the realization of self-adjoint operators $L_{\Theta, \Om}$ in $L^2(\Om; d^n x)^m$, $m, n \in \bbN$, associated with divergence form elliptic partial differential expressions $L$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Fritz Gesztesy , Marius Mitrea , Roger Nichols

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the heat kernel with respect to the Witten Laplacian. We introduce the localization and the scaling technique in semi-classical analysis, and study the semi-classical asymptotic behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Eric Jian-Ting Chen

We use the averaged variational principle introduced in a recent article on graph spectra [7] to obtain upper bounds for sums of eigenvalues of several partial differential operators of interest in geometric analysis, which are analogues of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-24 Ahmad El Soufi , Evans Harrell , Said Ilias , Joachim Stubbe

We study the relationship between the geometry and the Laplace spectrum of a Riemannian orbifold O via its heat kernel; as in the manifold case, the time-zero asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel furnishes geometric information about O.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-21 Emily B. Dryden , Carolyn S. Gordon , Sarah J. Greenwald , David L. Webb

The quantisation of gauge theories usually procedes through the introduction of ghost fields and BRST symmetry. In the case of quantum gravity in the presence of boundaries, the BRST-invariant boundary value problem for the gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-04 Ian G. Moss