

Preprint 100/2002
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
DOI number (of the published article): 10.1016/S0393-0440(03)00091-3
Bibtex
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.