The hypoelliptic Laplacian and Ray-Singer metrics:
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Main Author: Bismut, Jean-Michel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2008
Series:Annals of mathematics studies no. 167
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-357) and indexes
This book presents the analytic foundations to the theory of the hypoelliptic Laplacian. The hypoelliptic Laplacian, a second-order operator acting on the cotangent bundle of a compact manifold, is supposed to interpolate between the classical Laplacian and the geodesic flow. Jean-Michel Bismut and Gilles Lebeau establish the basic functional analytic properties of this operator, which is also studied from the perspective of local index theory and analytic torsion. The book shows that the hypoelliptic Laplacian provides a geometric version of the Fokker-Planck equations. The authors give th
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 367 pages)
ISBN:1400829062
9781400829064

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