The heat kernel of a ball in \(C^ n\) (Q910566)

By introducing the horosphere coordinate of a unit ball \(B^ n\) in \({\mathbb{C}}^ n\) and an integral transformation formula of functions in such coordinates, the author constructs the heat kernel \(H_{B^ n}(z,w,t)\) of the heat equation associated to the Bergman metric of \(B^ n\). That is \[ H_{B^ n}(z,w,t)=c_ n(-\frac{1}{\pi})^ n\frac{e^{-n^ 2t}}{\sqrt{t}}\times \] \[ \times \int^{\infty}_{- \infty}[\frac{1}{sh 2\sigma}\frac{\partial}{\partial \sigma}(\frac{1}{sh \sigma}\frac{\partial}{\partial \sigma})^{n-1}e^{-\sigma^ 2/4t}]_{ch^ 2 \sigma =ch^ 2 r(x,w)+\tau^ 2}d\tau, \] where \(c_ n\) is a well-defined constant and r(z,w) is the geodesic distance of two points z and w of \(B^ n\) and \(t\in {\mathbb{R}}^+\).