THE SPINOR HEAT KERNEL IN MAXIMALLY SYMMETRICAL SPACES

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CAMPORESI, R
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[1] Theoretical Physics Institute, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2J1, Alberta
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10.1007/BF02100862
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The heat kernel K(x, x', t) of the iterated Dirac operator on an N-dimensional simply connected maximally symmetric Riemannian manifold is calculated. On the odd-dimensional hyperbolic spaces K is a Minakshisundaram-DeWitt expansion which terminates to the coefficient a(N-1)/2 and is exact. On the odd spheres the heat kernel may be written as an, image sum of WKB kernels, each term corresponding to a classical path (geodesic). In the even dimensional case the WKB approximation is not exact, but a closed form of K is derived both in terms of (spherical) eigenfunctions and of a "sum over classical paths." The spinor Plancherel measure u(lambda) and zeta-function in the hyperbolic case are also calculated. A simple relation between the analytic structure of mu on H(N) and the degeneracies of the Dirac operator on S(N) is found.
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