On the asymptotics of the heat equation and bounds on traces associated with the Dirichlet Laplacian (Q1095307)

Let \(\Delta_ D\) be the Dirichlet Laplacian for some open bounded and connected set in \(R^ n\) with a regular boundary \(\partial D\). Asymptotic results are obtained for \[ F(t)=trace(e^{t\Delta_ D}- 1)^{-1},\quad t\downarrow 0. \] For example if \(n=2\) and \(\partial D\) is smooth then \[ F(t)=\frac{| D|}{4\pi t}\log \frac{| D|}{t}+\frac{1}{t}\{\frac{| D| \gamma}{4\pi}+ \] \[ +\sum^{\infty}_{k=1}e^{-| D| \lambda_ k}\frac{1}{\lambda_ k}+| D| \int^{1}_{0}(\sum^{\infty}_{k=1}e^{-q| D| \lambda_ k}-\frac{1}{4\pi q})dq)+O(t^{-2/3}), \] where \(| D|\) is the volume of D, \(\{\lambda_ 1,\lambda_ 2,...\}\) is the spectrum of \(- \Delta_ D\) and \(\gamma\) is Euler's constant.