Witten deformation on non-compact manifolds: heat kernel expansion and local index theorem

DOI10.1007/S00209-022-03150-0MaRDI QIDQ2105299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xianzhe Dai, Junrong Yan

Publication date 8 December 2022

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05468

zbMATH Keywords

heat kernel expansionlocal index theoremWitten deformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: Asymptotic expansions of heat kernels and heat traces of Schr"odinger operators on non-compact spaces are rarely explored, and even for cases as simple as $mathbb{C}^n$ with (quasi-homogeneous) polynomials potentials, it's already very complicated. Motivated by path integral formulation of the heat kernel, we introduced a parabolic distance, which also appeared in Li-Yau's famous work on parabolic Harnack estimate. With the help of the parabolic distance, we derive a pointwise asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel for the Witten Laplacian with strong remainder estimate. When the deformation parameter of Witten deformation and time parameter are coupled, we derive an asymptotic expansion of trace of heat kernel for small-time $t$, and obtain a local index theorem. This is the second of our papers in understanding Landau-Ginzburg B-models on nontrivial spaces, and in subsequent work, we will develop the Ray-Singer torsion for Witten deformation in the non-compact setting.

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