arXiv research

Quantum heat traces study new invariants from elliptic operators.

Study heat trace expansion on manifolds with conic points.

Heat trace analysis reveals singularity properties on wedge-shaped manifolds.

Study heat traces for drifting Laplacian and Schrödinger operators on manifolds.

Study on heat trace on sub-Riemannian manifolds using probabilistic methods.

The paper analyzes heat trace asymptotics for de Rham and Dolbeault complexes in both real and complex settings.

Study on heat trace expansion for thermoelastic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.

Quantum stochastic flow computes heat kernel traces for Ricci flat manifolds.

New heat trace coefficients reveal curvature effects in polygonal domains.

Study spectral invariants for polygons and orbisurfaces.

The paper connects eigenvalue problems for various operators and establishes inequalities and asymptotic formulas for heat traces.

We show that the linear trace Harnack quadratic on a steady gradient Ricci soliton satisfies the heat equation. Similar result holds for shrinkers. We also present an interpolation between Perelman's and Cao--Hamilton's Harnacks on a steady soliton.

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 while hyperbolic elements give only exponentially vanishing corrections to the trace…

The paper calculates spectral invariants of magnetic Steklov eigenvalues on Riemannian manifolds.

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 microlocal heat kernel construction for algebraic boundary conditions is guided …

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 generating function for the whole sequence of all heat invariants.

Study of spectral geometry on noncommutative tori using functional metrics.

The paper proves new Harnack inequalities for various nonlinear heat equations on manifolds.

Let $G$ be a compact connected Lie group equipped with a bi-invariant metric. We calculate the asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel of the laplacian on $G$ and the heat trace using Lie algebra methods. The Duflo isomorphism plays a key role.

Researchers derived heat kernel expansions for non-compact spaces using Witten deformation.

The paper proves recurrence relations for heat kernels on hyperbolic and spherical spaces.

Study calculates heat coefficients from geodesic polygon corners.

The paper calculates heat kernel and closed geodesic asymptotics for nilpotent coverings.

The paper calculates the full asymptotics of analytic torsions for compact orbifolds.

Heat kernels are used in this paper to express the analytic index of projectively invariant Dirac type operators on G-covering spaces of compact manifolds, as elements in the K-theory of certain unconditional completions of the twisted group algebra of G. This is combined with V. Lafforgue's results in the untwisted ca…

The paper studies heat kernel behavior on symmetric spaces.

Formula for twisted orbital integrals using hypoelliptic Laplacian.

Let $Ω_0$ be a polygon in $\RR^2$, or more generally a compact surface with piecewise smooth boundary and corners. Suppose that $Ω_\e$ is a family of surfaces with $\calC^\infty$ boundary which converges to $Ω_0$ smoothly away from the corners, and in a precise way at the vertices to be described in the paper. Fedosov …

Study the heat operator of a transversally elliptic operator on Lie groups.

In this paper we study the small time asymptotics for the heat kernel on a sub-Riemannian manifold, using a perturbative approach. We then explicitly compute, in the case of a 3D contact structure, the first two coefficients of the small time asymptotics expansion of the heat kernel on the diagonal, expressing them in …

Formula for heat coefficients of curved conic singularities derived from Riemannian metrics.

Paper adapts Getzler's grading technique for new applications.

We consider the basic heat operator on functions on a Riemannian foliation of a compact, Riemannian manifold, and we show that the trace of this operator has a particular short time asymptotic expansion. The coefficients in this expansion are obtainable from local transverse geometric invariants - functions computable …

Researchers find isospectral but non-diffeomorphic nilmanifolds.

In this thesis we study the geometry of the fixed point set $Σ$ of a smooth mapping $Φ: M\to M$ on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $M$ without boundary by computing the asymptotic expansion of the deformed heat trace $\Trace Φ\exp(tΔ)$ of the Laplace operator $Δ$ on $M$. We assume that the fixed point set $Σ$ is a…

We examine the local super trace asymptotics for the de Rham complex defined by an arbitrary super connection on the exterior algebra. We show, in contrast to the situation in which the connection in question is the Levi-Civita connection, that these invariants are generically non-zero in positive degree and that the c…

We study the heat trace asymptotics associated with the Steklov eigenvalue problem on a Riemannian manifold with boundary. In particular, we describe the structure of the Steklov heat invariants and compute the first few of them explicitly in terms of the scalar and mean curvatures. This is done by applying the Seeley …

Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary and let H be a self-adjoint generalized Laplace operator acting on sections in a bundle over M. We give a path integral formula for the solution to the corresponding heat equation. This is based on approximating path space by finite dimensional spaces of geodesic …

Study the spectral properties of Laplacian on warped product manifolds.

Sub-Riemannian Selberg trace formulae for compact quotients of SL(2, R)

Study the spectral geometry of surfaces with curved conic singularities.

The main objective of the paper is to prove a geometric version of sharp trace and product estimates on null hypersurfaces with finite curvature flux. These estimates play a crucial role to control the geometry of such null hypersurfaces. The paper is based on an invariant version of the classical Littlewood -Paley the…

We study the horizontal Laplacian $Δ^H$ associated to the Hopf fibration $S^3\to S^2$ with arbitrary Chern number $k$. We use representation theory to calculate the spectrum, describe the heat kernel and obtain the complete heat trace asymptotics of $Δ^H$. We express the Green functions for associated Poisson semigroup…

The paper connects curvature data to polynomial coefficients in gluing formulas.

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. In the case of a good Riemannian orbifold (i.e., an orbifold arising as the orbi…

Researchers confirm Mark Kac's question for specific 3D and 4D orbifold lens spaces.

In this paper, by applying a linear trace Li-Yau-Hamilton inequality for a positive (1,1)-form solution of the CR Hodge-Laplace heat equation and monotonicity of the heat equation deformation, we obtain an optimal gap theorem for a complete strictly pseudocovex CR manifold with nonnegative pseudohermitian bisectional c…

We prove certain generalization of Hardy's inequality where the "boundary defining function" is replaced by a polynomial defining a singular algebraic variety. An application is given on the existence of a small time heat trace expansion for a Schrödinger operator with mild singularities along this algebraic set.