Heat Kernels for Elliptic and Sub-elliptic Operators (eBook)

Methods and Techniques

Ovidiu Calin, Der-Chen Chang, Kenro Furutani, Chisato Iwasaki (Autoren)

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2010 | 2011
XVIII, 436 Seiten
Birkhäuser Boston (Verlag)
978-0-8176-4995-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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With each methodology treated in its own chapter, this monograph is a thorough exploration of several theories that can be used to find explicit formulas for heat kernels for both elliptic and sub-elliptic operators. The authors show how to find heat kernels for classical operators by employing a number of different methods. Some of these methods come from stochastic processes, others from quantum physics, and yet others are purely mathematical.What is new about this work is the sheer diversity of methods that are used to compute the heat kernels. It is interesting that such apparently distinct branches of mathematics, including stochastic processes, differential geometry, special functions, quantum mechanics and PDEs, all have a common concept the heat kernel. This unifying concept, that brings together so many domains of mathematics, deserves dedicated study.Heat Kernels for Elliptic and Sub-elliptic Operators is an ideal resource for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in pure and applied mathematics as well as theoretical physicists interested in understanding different ways of approaching evolution operators.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis
• Reihe/Serie: Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 436 p. 25 illus.
• Verlagsort: Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Brownian motion • diffusion processes • elliptic and sub-elliptic operators • evolution operators • Fourier transform • Heat kernel • Laguerre calculus • nilmanifolds • nilpotent Lie groups • parabolic operators • Partial differential equations • psuedo-differential o • psuedo-differential operators • quantum mechanics • quartic oscillator • Stochastic Processes • sub-Riemannian manifolds • Van Vleck formula
• ISBN-10: 0-8176-4995-6 / 0817649956
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8176-4995-1 / 9780817649951