Spectral geometry on manifolds with fibred boundary metrics. II: Heat kernel asymptotics (Q2124669)

In this paper, the authors continue with the analysis of spectral problems in the setting of complete manifolds with fibred boundary metrics, referred to as \(\phi\)-metrics (for Part I, see [the authors with \textit{D. Grieser}, ``Spectral geometry on manifolds with fibred boundary metrics. I: Low energy resolvent'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:2009.10125}]). They consider the Hodge Laplacian for a \(\phi\)-metric and construct the corresponding heat kernel as a polyhomogeneous conormal distribution on an appropriate manifold with corners. Their discussion provides a fundamental first step towards analysis of Ray-Singer torsion, eta-invariants and index theorems in the setting.