Heat Kernels for Elliptic and Sub-elliptic Operators: Methods and Techniques

Heat Kernels for Elliptic and Sub-elliptic Operators: Methods and Techniques
ISBN-10
0817649956
ISBN-13
9780817649951
Category
Mathematics
Pages
436
Language
English
Published
2010-10-10
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Ovidiu Calin, Der-Chen Chang, Kenro Furutani

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.

Similar books