Heat trace for Laplace type operators with non-scalar symbols

Abstract: For an elliptic selfadjoint operator

P = - [u^{m u u} p a r t i a l_{m} u p a r t i a l_{u} + v^{u} p a r t i a l_{u} + w]

acting on a fiber bundle over a Riemannian manifold, where

u, v^{m} u, w

are

N i m e s N

-matrices, we develop a method to compute the heat-trace coefficients

a_{r}

which allows to get them by a pure computational machinery. It is exemplified in dimension 4 by the value of

a_{1}

written both in terms of

u, v^{m} u, w

or diffeomorphic and gauge invariants. We also answer to the question: when is it possible to get explicit formulae for

a_{r}

?

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