Random Witten Laplacians: Traces of semigroups, \(L^{2}\)-Betti numbers and index (Q936149)

The authors investigate random Witten Laplacians on infinite coverings of compact manifolds. The main results are: the authors produce the probabilistic representation of the corresponding heat kernel, prove the finiteness of the von Neumann traces for the corresponding semigroups and compute the short time asymptotics of the corresponding supertrace. Some examples associated with Gibbs measures on configuration spaces and product manifolds are also considered. The article is characterised by a detailed exposition.