Modified zeta functions as kernels of integral operators

The modified zeta functions _∑n∈Kn−s, where K⊂N, converge absolutely for . These generalise the Riemann zeta function which is known to have a meromorphic continuation to all of C with a single pole at s=1. Our main result is a characterisation of the modified zeta functions that have pole-like behaviour at this point. This behaviour is defined by considering the modified zeta functions as kernels of certain integral operators on the spaces L²(I) for symmetric and bounded intervals I⊂R. We also consider the special case when the set K⊂N is assumed to have arithmetic structure. In particular, we look at local Lp integrability properties of the modified zeta functions on the abscissa for p∈[1,∞].     

Long-time asymptotics of heat kernels for one-dimensional elliptic operators with periodic coefficients

We give long-time asymptotics of heat kernels generated by one-dimensionalsecond-order elliptic operators with periodic coefficients.As a by-product Gaussian bounds are also derived.     

The Dixmier trace and asymptotics of zeta functions

We obtain general theorems which enable the calculation of the Dixmier trace in terms of the asymptotics of the zeta function and of the trace of the heat semigroup. We prove our results in a general semi-finite von Neumann algebra. We find for p>1 that the asymptotics of the zeta function determines an ideal strictly larger than Lp,∞ on which the Dixmier trace may be defined. We also establish stronger versions of other results on Dixmier traces and zeta functions.     

Adiabatic limits of eta and zeta functions of elliptic operators

We extend the calculus of adiabatic pseudo-differential operators to study the adiabatic limit behavior of the eta and zeta functions of a differential operator , constructed from an elliptic family of operators indexed by S ¹ . We show that the regularized values ( _t ,0) and t( _t ,0) are smooth functions of t at t=0, and we identify their values at t=0 with the holonomy of the determinant bundle, respectively with a residue trace. For invertible families of operators, the functions ( _t ,s) and t( _t ,s) are shown to extend smoothly to t=0 for all values of s. After normalizing with a Gamma factor, the zeta function satisfies in the adiabatic limit an identity reminiscent of the Riemann zeta function, while the eta function converges to the volume of the Bismut-Freed meromorphic family of connection 1-forms. Mathamatics Subject Classification (2000): 58J28, 58J52Partially supported by ANSTI (Romania), the European Commission RTN HPRN-CT-1999-00118 Geometric Analysis and by the IREX RTR project.     

Meromorphic continuation of dynamical zeta functions via transfer operators

We describe a method to prove meromorphic continuation of dynamical zeta functions to the entire complex plane under the condition that the corresponding partition functions are given via a dynamical trace formula from a family of transfer operators. Further we give general conditions for the partition functions associated with general spin chains to be of this type and provide various families of examples for which these conditions are satisfied.     

Extremal functions as divisors for kernels of Toeplitz operators

In this paper, an extremal function of a Banach space of analytic functions in the unit disk (not all functions vanishing at 0) is a function solving the extremal problem for functions f of norm 1. We study extremal functions of kernels of Toeplitz operators on Hardy spaces H^p, 1<p<∞. Such kernels are special cases of so-called nearly invariant subspaces with respect to the backward shift, for which Hitt proved that when p=2, extremal functions act as isometric divisors. We show that the extremal function is still a contractive divisor when p<2 and an expansive divisor when p>2 (modulo p-dependent multiplicative constants). We give examples showing that the extremal function may fail to be a contractive divisor when p>2 and also fail to be an expansive divisor when p<2. We discuss to what extent these results characterize the Toeplitz operators via invariant subspaces for the backward shift.     

Random fractal strings: Their zeta functions, complex dimensions and spectral asymptotics

In this paper a string is a sequence of positive non-increasing real numbers which sums to one. For our purposes a fractal string is a string formed from the lengths of removed sub-intervals created by a recursive decomposition of the unit interval. By using the so-called complex dimensions of the string, the poles of an associated zeta function, it is possible to obtain detailed information about the behaviour of the asymptotic properties of the string. We consider random versions of fractal strings. We show that by using a random recursive self-similar construction, it is possible to obtain similar results to those for deterministic self-similar strings. In the case of strings generated by the excursions of stable subordinators, we show that the complex dimensions can only lie on the real line. The results allow us to discuss the geometric and spectral asymptotics of one-dimensional domains with random fractal boundary.

     

Short-time asymptotics of heat kernels of hypoelliptic Laplacians on unimodular Lie groups

We consider the problem of computing heat kernel small-time asymptotics for hypoelliptic Laplacians associated to left-invariant sub-Riemannian structures on unimodular Lie groups of type I. We use the non-commutative Fourier transform of the Lie group together with perturbation theory for semigroups of operators in deriving these asymptotics. We illustrate our approach on the example of the Heisenberg group, and, as an application, we compute the short-time behaviour of the hypoelliptic heat kernel on the step 3 nilpotent Cartan and Engel groups, for which no closed-form expression for the hypoelliptic heat kernel is yet known.     

On the asymptotic behavior of spectral functions and resolvent kernels of elliptic operators

Asymptotic formulas with remainder estimates are derived for spectral functions of general elliptic operators. The estimates are based on asymptotic expansion of resolvent kernels in the complex plane. The research of the first author reported in this document has been sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant AF EOAR 66–18, through the European Office of Aerospace Research (OAR) United States Air Force. This paper is to be part of the second author’s Ph.D. thesis written under the direction of the first author at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.     

Measurable functions and almost continuous functions

I show that if (X, ) is a Radon measure space and Y is a metric space, then a function from X to Y is -measurable iff it is almost continuous (=Lusin measurable). I discuss other cases in which measurable functions are almost continuous.Part of the work of this paper was done during a visit to Japan supported by the United Kingdom Science Research Council and Hokkaido University     

On the large time behavior of the heat kernels of quasiperiodic differential operators

We prove an analog of the Berry-Esseen estimate for the heat kernel of second order elliptic differential operators with quasiperiodic coefficients. As an application of this result, we prove the L^p boundedness of the associated Riesz transform operators.     

Long time behavior of heat kernels of operators with unbounded drift terms

Given a second-order elliptic operator on Rd, with bounded diffusion coefficients and unbounded drift, which is the generator of a strongly continuous semigroup on L²(Rd) represented by an integral, we study the time behavior of the integral kernel and prove estimates on its decay at infinity. If the diffusion coefficients are symmetric, a local lower estimate is also proved.