Strong short-time asymptotics and convolution approximation of the heat kernel

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Abstract: We give a short proof of a strong version of the short time asymptotic expansion of heat kernels associated to Laplace type operators acting on sections of vector bundles over compact Riemannian manifolds, including exponential decay of the difference of the approximate heat kernel and the true heat kernel. We use this to show that repeated convolution of the approximate heat kernels can be used to approximate the heat kernel on all of M, which is related to expressing the heat kernel as a path integral. This scheme is then applied to obtain a short-time asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel at the cut locus.


In the paper under review, the author introduces the Hadamard expansion of the solution operator to the heat equation and combines it with the transmutation formula to prove the results. He also proves a general version of Laplace's method.



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