Download or read book Heat Kernels for Elliptic and Sub-elliptic Operators written by Ovidiu Calin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a unified presentation of several theories of finding explicit formulas for heat kernels for both elliptic and sub-elliptic operators. These kernels are important in the theory of parabolic operators because they describe the distribution of heat on a given manifold as well as evolution phenomena and diffusion processes. Heat Kernels for Elliptic and Sub-elliptic Operators is an ideal reference for graduate students, researchers in pure and applied mathematics, and theoretical physicists interested in understanding different ways of approaching evolution operators.