Heat invariants of Riemannian manifolds
Abstract
Description
We calculate heat invariants of arbitrary Riemannian manifolds without boundary. Every heat invariant is expressed in terms of powers of the Laplacian and the distance function. Our approach is based on a multi-dimensional generalization of the Agmon-Kannai method. An application to computation of the Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy is also presented.
Revised version. Main result is greatly simplified and presented in an invariant form. An application to computation of KdV hierarchy is added
Revised version. Main result is greatly simplified and presented in an invariant form. An application to computation of KdV hierarchy is added