An L^2 theory for differential forms on path spaces. I

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2007.09.016MaRDI QIDQ2469820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 11 February 2008

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612416

\(L^2\) cohomology Bismut tangent spaces Exterior products Hodge decomposition Malliavin calculus Path space

Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65) Stochastic calculus of variations and the Malliavin calculus (60H07)

Abstract: An L2 theory of differential forms is proposed for the Banach manifold of continuous paths on Riemannian manifolds M furnished with its Brownian motion measure. Differentiation must be restricted to certain Hilbert space directions, the H-tangent vectors. To obtain a closed exterior differential operator the relevant spaces of differential forms, the H-forms, are perturbed by the curvature of M. A Hodge decomposition is given for L2 H-one-forms, and the structure of H-two -forms is described. The dual operator d* is analysed in terms of a natural connection on the H-tangent spaces. Malliavin calculus is a basic tool.

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In this long paper, the authors construct a self-adjoint Hodge Laplacian on spaces of one- and two-forms over the manifold of continuous paths on a compact Riemannian manifold. The measure used is the Brownian motion measure or Wiener measure. The \(q\)-vectors involved, dual to the forms, are perturbations of the usual exterior powers of ``finite energy tangent vectors by a curvature term. The ``damped Markovian connection on the path space plays an important role, and is also simply described. Malliavin calculus is a basic tool to derive these results.

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