Path integral formulae for heat kernels and their derivatives (Q1326331)
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Path integral formulae for heat kernels and their derivatives (English)
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18 May 1994
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The heat kernel and its derivatives of a vector Laplacian on the sections of a bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold are expressed as products of the scalar heat kernel of the manifold and path integrals over the Brownian bridge. The small-time asymptotics of these integrals are computed.
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Brownian motion
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heat kernel
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path integrals
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