Heat Kernels Estimates for Hermitian Line Bundles on Manifolds of Bounded Geometry

Abstract

We consider a family of semiclassically scaled second-order elliptic differential operators on high tensor powers of a Hermitian line bundle (possibly, twisted by an auxiliary Hermitian vector bundle of arbitrary rank) on a Riemannian manifold of bounded geometry. We establish an off-diagonal Gaussian upper bound for the associated heat kernel. The proof is based on some tools from the theory of operator semigroups in a Hilbert space, results on Sobolev spaces adapted to the current setting, and weighted estimates with appropriate exponential weights.

Keywords

• heat kernel estimates
• manifold of bounded geometry
• Bochner Laplacian
• elliptic differential operator
• Hermitian line bundle
• semiclassical asymptotics