Curvature and the heat equation for the de Rham complex
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Publication:1162297
DOI10.1007/BF02867017zbMath0481.58027MaRDI QIDQ1162297
Publication date: 1981
Published in: Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem; Euler form; heat equation methods; Euler-Poincare characteristic; compact Riemannian manifold without boundary; covariant derivatives of the curvature tensor; Laplacian on p- forms
58J50: Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds
58A12: de Rham theory in global analysis
53C20: Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching
58J35: Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds
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