COVARIANT TECHNIQUES FOR COMPUTATION OF THE HEAT KERNEL

DOI10.1142/S0129055X99000295zbMath0973.58013arXivhep-th/9704166OpenAlexW3100140660MaRDI QIDQ4519819

Ivan G. Avramidi

Publication date: 4 December 2000

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9704166

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldheat kernelgeneralized Laplaciansmooth sections of a vector bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sheaves and cohomology of sections of holomorphic vector bundles, general results (32L10) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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