Heat Kernel Method and its Applications

Heat Kernel Method and its Applications
Author: Ivan Avramidi
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319262661

The heart of the book is the development of a short-time asymptotic expansion for the heat kernel. This is explained in detail and explicit examples of some advanced calculations are given. In addition some advanced methods and extensions, including path integrals, jump diffusion and others are presented. The book consists of four parts: Analysis, Geometry, Perturbations and Applications. The first part shortly reviews of some background material and gives an introduction to PDEs. The second part is devoted to a short introduction to various aspects of differential geometry that will be needed later. The third part and heart of the book presents a systematic development of effective methods for various approximation schemes for parabolic differential equations. The last part is devoted to applications in financial mathematics, in particular, stochastic differential equations. Although this book is intended for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in, it should also provide a useful reference for professional physicists, applied mathematicians as well as quantitative analysts with an interest in PDEs.

Heat Kernel on Lie Groups and Maximally Symmetric Spaces

Heat Kernel on Lie Groups and Maximally Symmetric Spaces
Author: Ivan G. Avramidi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2023-05-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3031274512

This monograph studies the heat kernel for the spin-tensor Laplacians on Lie groups and maximally symmetric spaces. It introduces many original ideas, methods, and tools developed by the author and provides a list of all known exact results in explicit form – and derives them – for the heat kernel on spheres and hyperbolic spaces. Part I considers the geometry of simple Lie groups and maximally symmetric spaces in detail, and Part II discusses the calculation of the heat kernel for scalar, spinor, and generic Laplacians on spheres and hyperbolic spaces in various dimensions. This text will be a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students working in various areas of mathematics – such as global analysis, spectral geometry, stochastic processes, and financial mathematics – as well in areas of mathematical and theoretical physics – including quantum field theory, quantum gravity, string theory, and statistical physics.

The Heat Kernel Lefschetz Fixed Point Formula for the Spin-c Dirac Operator

The Heat Kernel Lefschetz Fixed Point Formula for the Spin-c Dirac Operator
Author: J.J. Duistermaat
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461253446

When visiting M.I.T. for two weeks in October 1994, Victor Guillemin made me enthusiastic about a problem in symplectic geometry which involved the use of the so-called spin-c Dirac operator. Back in Berkeley, where I had l spent a sabbatical semester , I tried to understand the basic facts about this operator: its definition, the main theorems about it, and their proofs. This book is an outgrowth of the notes in which I worked this out. For me this was a great learning experience because of the many beautiful mathematical structures which are involved. I thank the Editorial Board of Birkhauser, especially Haim Brezis, for sug gesting the publication of these notes as a book. I am also very grateful for the suggestions by the referees, which have led to substantial improvements in the presentation. Finally I would like to express special thanks to Ann Kostant for her help and her prodding me, in her charming way, into the right direction. J.J. Duistermaat Utrecht, October 16, 1995.

Stochastic Geometric Analysis With Applications

Stochastic Geometric Analysis With Applications
Author: Ovidiu Calin
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 981128329X

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the interplay between Stochastic Analysis, Geometry, and Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). It aims to investigate the influence of geometry on diffusions induced by underlying structures, such as Riemannian or sub-Riemannian geometries, and examine the implications for solving problems in PDEs, mathematical finance, and related fields. The book aims to unify the relationships between PDEs, nonholonomic geometry, and stochastic processes, focusing on a specific condition shared by these areas known as the bracket-generating condition or Hörmander's condition. The main objectives of the book are:The intended audience for this book includes researchers and practitioners in mathematics, physics, and engineering, who are interested in stochastic techniques applied to geometry and PDEs, as well as their applications in mathematical finance and electrical circuits.

Introduction to Quantum Field Theory with Applications to Quantum Gravity

Introduction to Quantum Field Theory with Applications to Quantum Gravity
Author: Iosif L. Buchbinder
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 019883831X

This textbook presents a detailed introduction to the general concepts of quantum field theory, with special emphasis on principal aspects of functional methods and renormalization in gauge theories, and includes an introduction to semiclassical and perturbative quantum gravity in flat and curved spacetimes.

Proceedings Of The Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference

Proceedings Of The Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference
Author: Berthold-georg Englert
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811213151

The Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference of 2018 assembled many of Schwinger's students, colleagues, and friends to celebrate this towering figure of twentieth century physics one hundred years after his birth. This proceedings volume collects talks delivered on this occasion. They cover a wide range of topics, all related to Schwinger's rich scientific legacy — supplemented by personal recollections about Julian Schwinger, the physicist, the teacher, and the gentleman.Also included are an essay of 1985, co-authored by Schwinger but not published previously, as well as the transcripts of speeches by distinguished colleagues at the 1978 gathering when Schwinger's sixtieth birthday was celebrated.

Laguerre Calculus and Its Applications on the Heisenberg Group

Laguerre Calculus and Its Applications on the Heisenberg Group
Author: Carlos A. Berenstein
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2001
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821827618

For nearly two centuries, the relation between analytic functions of one complex variable, their boundary values, harmonic functions, and the theory of Fourier series has been one of the central topics of study in mathematics. The topic stands on its own, yet also provides very useful mathematical applications. This text provides a self-contained introduction to the corresponding questions in several complex variables: namely, analysis on the Heisenberg group and the study of the solutions of the boundary Cauchy-Riemann equations. In studying this material, readers are exposed to analysis in non-commutative compact and Lie groups, specifically the rotation group and the Heisenberg groups-both fundamental in the theory of group representations and physics. Introduced in a concrete setting are the main ideas of the Calderón-Zygmund-Stein school of harmonic analysis. Also considered in the book are some less conventional problems of harmonic and complex analysis, in particular, the Morera and Pompeiu problems for the Heisenberg group, which relates to questions in optics, tomography, and engineering. The book was borne of graduate courses and seminars held at the University of Maryland (College Park), the University of Toronto (ON), Georgetown University (Washington, DC), and the University of Georgia (Athens). Readers should have an advanced undergraduate understanding of Fourier analysis and complex analysis in one variable.

Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity

Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity
Author: Ivan G. Avramidi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2003-07-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540465235

This book tackles quantum gravity via the so-called background field method and its effective action functional. The author presents an explicitly covariant and effective technique to calculate the de Witt coefficients and to analyze the Schwinger-de Wit asymptotic expansion of the effective action. He also investigates the ultraviolet behaviour of higher-derivative quantum gravity. The book addresses theoretical physicists, graduate students as well as researchers, but should also be of interest to physicists working in mathematical or elementary particle physics.

The Method of Layer Potentials for the Heat Equation in Time-Varying Domains

The Method of Layer Potentials for the Heat Equation in Time-Varying Domains
Author: John L. Lewis
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1995
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821803603

This memoir consists of three papers in which we develop the method of layer potentials for the heat equation in time-varying domains. In Chapter I we show certain singular integral operators on [italic]L[superscript italic]p are bounded. in Chapter II, we develop a modification of the David buildup scheme to obtain [italic]L[superscript italic]p boundedness of the double layer heat potential on the boundary of our domains. In Chapter III, we use the results of the first two chapters to show the mutual absolute continuity of parabolic measure and a certain projective Lebesgue measure.