Supertrace divergence terms for the Witten Laplacian

Peter B. Gilkey, Klaus Kirsten, and Dmitri Vassilevich
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Submission date: 05. Dec. 2002
Pages: 11
published in: Potential analysis, 20 (2004) 3, p. 223-235 
MSC-Numbers: 58J50
Keywords and phrases: heat trace asymptotics, twisted de rham complex, invariance theory
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Abstract:
We use invariance theory to compute the divergence term in the super trace for the twisted de Rham complex for a closed Riemannian manifold.