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The heat kernels of Laplacians for spin 1/2, 1, 3/2 and 2 fields, and the asymptotic expansion of their traces are studied on manifolds with conical singularities. The exact mode-by-mode analysis is carried out for 2-dimensional domains and…

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The exponential kernel \[E{g}(\lambda,w) = \exp -\frac{1}{\pi}\int_{\mathbb{C} } \frac{g(u)}{\overline{u-w} (u-\lambda) } da(u ),\] where the compactly supported bounded measurable function $g$ satisfies $0 \leq g\leq 1,$ and suitably…

In this work, we study the heat equation with Grushin's operator. We present an expression for its heat kernel, prove its decay in $L^p$ spaces, and that it is an approximation of the identity. As a consequence, the heat semigroup…

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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…

The heat coefficients related to the Laplace-Beltrami operator defined on the hyperbolic compact manifold $H^3/\Ga$ are evaluated in the case in which the discrete group $\Ga$ contains elliptic and hyperbolic elements. It is shown that…

We develop a heat kernel method to compute the one-loop effective action for a general class of nonlinear electrodynamic (NLED) theories in four dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Working in the background field formalism, we extract the…

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…

We present a diagram technique used to calculate the Seeley-DeWitt coefficients for a covariant Laplace operator. We use the combinatorial properties of the coefficients to construct a matrix formalism and derive a formula for an arbitrary…

We review the general heat kernel method for the Dirac spinor field as an elementary example in any arbitrary background. We, then compute the first three Seeley-DeWitt coefficients for the massless free spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger field…

Let $X$ be a compact oriented CR manifold of dimension $2n+1$, $n \ge 1$, with a nondegenerate Levi form of constant signature $(n_-, n_+)$. Suppose that condition $Y(q)$ holds at each point of $X$, we establish the small time asymptotics…

Given a cone pseudodifferential operator $P$ we give a full asymptotic expansion as $t\to 0^+$ of the trace $\Tr Pe^{-tA}$, where $A$ is an elliptic cone differential operator for which the resolvent exists on a suitable region of the…

The heat kernel expansion for field theory at finite temperature is constructed. It is based on the imaginary time formalism and applies to generic Klein-Gordon operators in flat space-time. Full gauge invariance is manifest at each order…

This paper is concerned with a nonlinear integral equation $$ (P)\qquad u(x,t)=\int_{{\bf R}^N}G(x-y,t)\varphi(y)dy+\int_0^t\int_{{\bf R}^N}G(x-y,t-s)f(y,s:u)dyds, \quad $$ where $N\ge 1$, $\varphi\in L^\infty({\bf R}^N)\cap L^1({\bf…

We prove a surgery formula for the ordinary Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth $4$-manifolds with $b_1 =1$. Our formula expresses the Seiberg-Witten invariants of the manifold after the surgery, in terms of the original Seiberg-Witten…

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A method for calculating coefficient functions of the operator product expansion, which was previously derived for the non-singlet case, is generalized for the singlet coefficient functions. The resulting formula defines coefficient…

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