A semiclassical heat kernel proof of the Poincaré-Hopf theorem

DOI10.1007/S00229-015-0741-YzbMATH Open1367.58012arXiv1302.6895OpenAlexW3106523194MaRDI QIDQ494718FDOQ494718

Authors: Matthias Ludewig 

Publication date: 2 September 2015

Published in: Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We treat the Witten operator on the de Rham complex with semiclassical heat kernel methods to derive the Poincar'e-Hopf theorem and degenerate generalizations of it. Thereby, we see how the semiclassical asymptotics of the Witten heat kernel are related to approaches using the Thom form of Mathai and Quillen.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6895

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zbMATH Keywords

semiclassical heat kernelPoincaré-Hopf theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations of PDEs on manifolds; asymptotics (58J37)

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