Non-Perturbative Heat Kernel Asymptotics on Homogeneous Abelian Bundles

We study the heat kernel for a Laplace type partial differential operator acting on smooth sections of a complex vector bundle with the structure group G × U(1) over a Riemannian manifold M without boundary. The total connection on the vector bundle naturally splits into a G-connection and a U(1)-connection, which is assumed to have a parallel curvature F. We find a new local short time asymptotic expansion of the off-diagonal heat kernel U(t|x, x′) close to the diagonal of M × M assuming the curvature F to be of order t ⁻¹. The coefficients of this expansion are polynomial functions in the Riemann curvature tensor (and the curvature of the G-connection) and its derivatives with universal coefficients depending in a non-polynomial but analytic way on the curvature F, more precisely, on tF. These functions generate all terms quadratic and linear in the Riemann curvature and of arbitrary order in F in the usual heat kernel coefficients. In that sense, we effectively sum up the usual short time heat kernel asymptotic expansion to all orders of the curvature F. We compute the first three coefficients (both diagonal and off-diagonal) of this new asymptotic expansion.     

Deligne Products of Line Bundles over Moduli Spaces of Curves

We study Deligne products for forgetful maps between moduli spaces of marked curves by offering a closed formula for tautological line bundles associated to marked points. In particular, we show that the Deligne products for line bundles on the total spaces corresponding to “forgotten” marked points are positive integral multiples of the Weil-Petersson bundles on the base moduli spaces. Partially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.     

Differential Calculus on Quantum Homogeneous Spaces

The notion of quantum tangent space of a covariant first-order differential calculus over a quantum homogeneous space is established.     

The Doss Trick on Symmetric Spaces

The Doss trick is employed to find solutions of Schrüdinger equations on symmetric spaces of compact type. The potentials and initial conditions are taken from an algebra of functions which admit an holomorphic extension to the complexification of the considered symmetric spaces.     

Homogeneous Lorentzian Spaces Whose Null-geodesics are Canonically Homogeneous

It is shown that a homogeneous Lorentzian space for which every null-geodesic is canonically homogeneous, admits a non-vanishing homogeneous Lorentzian structure belonging to the class .     

A Poisson Structure on Compact Symmetric Spaces

We present some basic results on a natural Poisson structure on any compact symmetric space. The symplectic leaves of this structure are related to the orbits of the corresponding real semisimple group on the complex flag manifold.Acknowledgements We thank Sam Evens for many useful discussions. The first author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0072520. The second author was partially supported by NSF(USA) grants DMS-0105195 and DMS-0072551 and by the HHY Physical Sciences Fund at the University of Hong Kong.     

Relativities and Homogeneous Spaces I

Special relativity, the symmetry breakdown in the electroweak standard model, and the dichotomy of the spacetime related transformations with the Lorentz group, on the one side, and the chargelike transformations with the hypercharge and isospin group, on the other side, are discussed under the common concept of “relativity.” A relativity is defined by classes G/H of “little” group in a “general” group of operations. Relativities are representable as linear transformations that are considered for five physically relevant examples.Finite Dimensional Relativity Representations     

Equivariant Comparison of Quantum Homogeneous Spaces

We consider the quantum homogeneous spaces of the q-deformation of simply connected simple compact Lie groups and their Poisson–Lie quantum subgroups. We prove the deformation invariance in the equivariant KK-theory with respect to the translation action by maximal tori. This extends a result of Neshveyev and Tuset to the equivariant setting. As applications, we prove the ring isomorphism of the K-homology of G _q with respect to the coproduct of C(G _q ), and an analogue of the Borsuk–Ulam theorem for quantum spheres.     

Noncommutative Heat Kernel

Schrödinger operators on Sobolev spaces are considered as new solvable models with point interactions. A simple formula for the deficiency indices of a minimal Schrödinger operator with point interactions is given. Examples of point interactions on the space W₂¹( ³) are constructed.Mathematical Subject Classification (2000). 37J10, 47A10     

Vafa-Witten Estimates for Compact Symmetric Spaces

We give an optimal upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the untwisted Dirac operator on a compact symmetric space G/H with rk G - rk H ≤ 1 with respect to arbitrary Riemannian metrics. We also prove a rigidity statement. Supported in part by DFG special programme “Global Differential Geometry”     

Scalar Curvature and Asymptotic Symmetric Spaces

A well known fact is that a complete Riemannian (spin) manifold which is strongly asymptotically flat and has nonnegative scalar curvature must be isometric to the Euclidean space. Using Witten’s positive mass argument this paper proves the analogous rigidity result for certain asymptotic symmetric spaces. Supported by the German Science Foundation.     

Construction of Covariant Differential Calculi on Quantum Homogeneous Spaces

A method of constructing covariant differential calculi on a quantum homogeneous space is devised. The function algebra of the quantum homogeneous space is assumed to be a left coideal of a coquasitriangular Hopf algebra and to contain the coefficients of any matrix over which is the two-sided inverse of one with entries in . The method is based on partial derivatives. For the quantum sphere of Podle and the quantizations of symmetric spaces due to Noumi, Dijkhuizen and Sugitani, the construction produces the subcalculi of the standard bicovariant calculus on the quantum group.     

Heat Kernel Expansions on the Integers

In the case of the heat equation u _t =u _xx +Vu on the real line, there are some remarkable potentials V for which the asymptotic expansion of the fundamental solution becomes a finite sum and gives an exact formula.We show that a similar phenomenon holds when one replaces the real line by the integers. In this case the second derivative is replaced by the second difference operator L ₀. We show if L denotes the result of applying a finite number of Darboux transformations to L ₀ then the fundamental solution of u _t =Lu is given by a finite sum of terms involving the Bessel function I of imaginary argument.     

Double Bracket Equations and Geodesic Flows on Symmetric Spaces

In this paper we consider the geometry of Hamiltonian flows on the cotangent bundle of coadjoint orbits of compact Lie groups and on symmetric spaces. A key idea here is the use of the normal metric to define the kinetic energy. This leads to Hamiltonian flows of the double bracket type. We analyze the integrability of geodesic flows according to the method of Thimm. We obtain via the double bracket formalism a quite explicit form of the relevant commuting flows and a correspondingly transparent proof of involutivity. We demonstrate for example integrability of the geodesic flow on the real and complex Grassmannians. We also consider right invariant systems and the generalized rigid body equations in this setting. Received:23 July 1996 / Accepted: 16 December 1996     

Symplectic Structures on Moduli Spaces of Parabolic Higgs Bundles and Hilbert Scheme

Parabolic triples of the form (E_*,,) are considered, where (E_*,) is a parabolic Higgs bundle on a given compact Riemann surface X with parabolic structure on a fixed divisor S, and is a nonzero section of the underlying vector bundle. Sending such a triple to the Higgs bundle (E_*,) a map from the moduli space of stable parabolic triples to the moduli space of stable parabolic Higgs bundles is obtained. The pull back, by this map, of the symplectic form on the moduli space of stable parabolic Higgs bundles will be denoted by d. On the other hand, there is a map from the moduli space of stable parabolic triples to a Hilbert scheme Hilb(Z), where Z denotes the total space of the line bundle K_{X X}(S), that sends a triple (E_*,,) to the divisor defined by the section on the spectral curve corresponding to the parabolic Higgs bundle (E_*,). Using this map and a meromorphic one–form on Hilb(Z), a natural two–form on the moduli space of stable parabolic triples is constructed. It is shown here that this form coincides with the above mentioned form d.     

Heat Kernel and Number Theory on NC-Torus

The heat trace asymptotics on the noncommutative torus, where generalized Laplacians are made out of left and right regular representations, is fully determined. It turns out that this question is very sensitive to the number-theoretical aspect of the deformation parameters. The central condition we use is of a Diophantine type. More generally, the importance of number theory is made explicit in a few examples. We apply the results to the spectral action computation and revisit the UV/IR mixing phenomenon for a scalar theory. Although we find non-local counterterms in the NC theory on , we show that this theory can be made renormalizable at least at one loop, and maybe even beyond.     

On a Certain Approach to Quantum Homogeneous Spaces

We propose a definition of a quantum homogeneous space of a locally compact quantum group. We show that classically it reduces to the notion of homogeneous spaces, giving rise to an operator algebraic characterization of the transitive group actions. On the quantum level our definition goes beyond the quotient case providing a framework which, besides the Vaes’ quotient of a locally compact quantum group by its closed quantum subgroup (our main motivation) is also compatible with, generically non-quotient, quantum homogeneous spaces of a compact quantum group studied by P. Podleś as well as the Rieffel deformation of G-homogeneous spaces. Finally, our definition rules out the paradoxical examples of the non-compact quantum homogeneous spaces of a compact quantum group.     

A Construction of Representations and Quantum Homogeneous Spaces

A simplified construction of representations is presented for the quantized enveloping algebra q ( ), with being a simple complex Lie algebra belonging to one of the four principal series A\ell, B\ell, C\ell or D\ell. The carrier representation space is the quantized algebra of polynomials in antiholomorphic coordinate functions on the big cell of a coadjoint orbit of K where K is the compact simple Lie group with the Lie algebra – the compact form of .