Index-free heat kernel coefficients

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/8/014zbMATH Open0937.58018arXivhep-th/9708152OpenAlexW2157825322MaRDI QIDQ4699692FDOQ4699692

Authors: Anton E. M. van de Ven 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using index-free notation, we present the diagonal values of the first five heat kernel coefficients associated with a general Laplace-type operator on a compact Riemannian space without boundary. The fifth coefficient appears here for the first time. For a flat space with a gauge connection, the sixth coefficient is given too. Also provided are the leading terms for any coefficient, both in ascending and descending powers of the Yang-Mills and Riemann curvatures, to the same order as required for the fourth coefficient. These results are obtained by directly solving the relevant recursion relations, working in Fock-Schwinger gauge and Riemann normal coordinates. Our procedure is thus noncovariant, but we show that for any coefficient the `gauged' respectively `curved' version is found from the corresponding `non-gauged' respectively `flat' coefficient by making some simple covariant substitutions. These substitutions being understood, the coefficients retain their `flat' form and size. In this sense the fifth and sixth coefficient have only 26 and 75 terms respectively, allowing us to write them down. Using index-free notation also clarifies the general structure of the heat kernel coefficients. In particular, in flat space we find that from the fifth coefficient onward, certain scalars are absent. This may be relevant for the anomalies of quantum field theories in ten or more dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9708152

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zbMATH Keywords

heat kernel coefficientsLaplace-type operatorcompact Riemannian space without boundaryindex-free notation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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