Short time behavior of the heat kernel and its logarithmic deviatives (Q679316)

Let \(p_t(x,y)\) be the fundamental solution to the Cauchy problem for the heat equation of a compact connected Riemannian manifold \(M\). The authors study the asymptotic behavior of the derivatives of \(\log p_t(\cdot,y)\) as \(x\) at \(t\searrow 0\) for \(x\) outside and inside the cut locus of \(y\).