Heat kernel on homogeneous bundles over symmetric spaces (Q842482): Difference between revisions

The author considers Laplacians acting on sections of homogeneous vector bundles over symmetric spaces. By means of an integral representation of the heat semigroup a formal solution is obtained for the heat kernel diagonal that gives a generating function for the whole sequence of heat invariants. It is shown explicitly that the obtained result correctly reproduces the first non-trivial heat kernel coefficient as well as the exact heat kernel diagonals on the two-dimensional sphere \({\mathcal S}^{2}\) and the hyperbolic plane \({\mathcal H}^{2}.\) Finally, by means of a suitable regularization and analytical continuation it is proved that the obtained formal solution correctly reproduces the exact heat kernel diagonal.