A Feynman-Kac formula for differential forms on manifolds with boundary and geometric applications

DOI10.2140/PJM.2018.292.177zbMATH Open1377.53057arXiv1512.01153OpenAlexW2241401026MaRDI QIDQ2408271FDOQ2408271

Authors: L. L. de Lima 

Publication date: 12 October 2017

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a Feynman-Kac formula for differential forms satisfying absolute boundary conditions on Riemannian manifolds with boundary and of bounded geometry. We use this to construct $L^2$ harmonic forms out of bounded ones on the universal cover of a compact Riemannian manifold whose geometry displays a positivity property expressed in terms of a certain stochastic average of the Weitzenb"ock operator $R_p$ acting on $p$-forms and the second fundamental form of the boundary. This extends previous work by Elworthy-Li-Rosenberg on closed manifolds to this setting. As an application we find a geometric obstruction to the existence of metrics with 2-convex boundary and positive $R_2$ in this stochastic sense. We also discuss a version of the Feynman-Kac formula for spinors under suitable boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01153

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zbMATH Keywords

Feynman-Kac formulaBrownian motion on manifoldsabsolute boundary conditionsheat flow on differential formsstrong stochastic positivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65)

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