Divergence terms in the supertrace heat asymptotics for the de Rham complex on a manifold with boundary

Peter B. Gilkey, Klaus Kirsten, and Dmitri Vassilevich
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Submission date: 12. Nov. 2002
Pages: 19
published in: Journal of geometry and physics, 49 (2004) 3-4, p. 249-271 
MSC-Numbers: 58J50
Keywords and phrases: heat trace asymptotics, twisted de rham complex, witten laplacian, invariants of the orthogonal group
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Abstract:
We use invariance theory to determine the coefficient in the super trace for the twisted de Rham complex with absolute boundary conditions.