Hypoelliptic Laplacian and twisted trace formula (Q6073544)

Relevant reference for the author is the book of \textit{J.-M. Bismut} [Hypoelliptic Laplacian and orbital integrals. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2011; Zbl 1234.58001)]. Main result of the present paper is a general formula for the trace of the resolvent of the heat operator for hypoelliptic Laplacians. As an application a similar formula is obtained for the twisted orbital integrals of the wave operator. The first part of the paper is devoted to recalling the basics on real reductive Lie groups, related twists and geometric structure in the semisimple case. A geometric formulation for the twisted orbital integrals is introduced, allowing a restatement of the main results. The theory of the hypoelliptic Bismut's Laplacians is then reviewed, a representative example for related heat equations being equations of Kolmogorov type. After the proof of the main results, connections are emphasized with the local equivariant index for compact locally symmetric spaces, and with the twisted torsion introduced in [\textit{N. Bergeron} and \textit{M. Lipnowski}, J. Éc. Polytech., Math. 4, 435--471 (2017; Zbl 1380.11075)]. The contents of the present paper are derived from the first part of the Ph.D. author's thesis at the University of Paris Saclay, 2018, with supervisor J.-M. Bismut.