Diagram technique for the heat kernel of the covariant Laplace operator

DOI10.1134/S0040577919010070MaRDI QIDQ2313822zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. V. Ivanov

Publication date 23 July 2019

Published in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05455

zbMATH Keywords

covariant Laplace operatordiagram techniquegauge connectionheat kerneloperator determinantSeeley-Dewitt coefficientYang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Heat kernel (35K08) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

Abstract: We present a diagram technique used to calculate the Seeley-DeWitt coefficients for a covariant Laplace operator. We use the combinatorial properties of the coefficients to construct a matrix formalism and derive a formula for an arbitrary coefficient.

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