Heat kernels for elliptic and sub-elliptic operators : methods and techniques

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Heat kernels for elliptic and sub-elliptic operators : methods and techniques

Ovidiu Calin ... [et al.]

(Applied and numerical harmonic analysis / series editor, John J. Benedetto)

Birkhäuser , Springer, c2011

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Includes bibliographical reference (p. 425-429) and index

Other authors: Der-Chen Chang, Kenro Furutani, Chisato Iwasaki

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This monograph is a unified presentation of several theories of finding explicit formulas for heat kernels for both elliptic and sub-elliptic operators. These kernels are important in the theory of parabolic operators because they describe the distribution of heat on a given manifold as well as evolution phenomena and diffusion processes. Heat Kernels for Elliptic and Sub-elliptic Operators is an ideal reference for graduate students, researchers in pure and applied mathematics, and theoretical physicists interested in understanding different ways of approaching evolution operators.

Table of Contents

Part I. Traditional Methods for Computing Heat Kernels.- Introduction.- Stochastic Analysis Method.- A Brief Introduction to Calculus of Variations.- The Path Integral Approach.- The Geometric Method.- Commuting Operators.- Fourier Transform Method.- The Eigenfunctions Expansion Method.- Part II. Heat Kernel on Nilpotent Lie Groups and Nilmanifolds.- Laplacians and Sub-Laplacians.- Heat Kernels for Laplacians and Step 2 Sub-Laplacians.- Heat Kernel for Sub-Laplacian on the Sphere S^3.- Part III. Laguerre Calculus and Fourier Method.- Finding Heat Kernels by Using Laguerre Calculus.- Constructing Heat Kernel for Degenerate Elliptic Operators.- Heat Kernel for the Kohn Laplacian on the Heisenberg Group.- Part IV. Pseudo-Differential Operators.- The Psuedo-Differential Operators Technique.- Bibliography.- Index.

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  • NCID
    BB04014551
  • ISBN
    • 9780817649944
  • LCCN
    2010937587
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    [Boston],New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 433 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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