21.05.2026, 14:00–16:30
– FU Berlin, Room 101
Forschungsseminar Differentialgeometrie
Interuniversity Seminar in Geometric Analysis (FU Berlin)
Peter Topping and Isabel Fernández
We give time-slicing path integral formulas for solutions to the heat equation corresponding to a self-adjoint Laplace type operator acting on sections of a vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. More specifically, we show that such a solution can be approximated by integrals over finite-dimensional path spaces of piecewise geodesics subordinated to increasingly fine partitions of the time interval. We consider a subclass of mixed boundary conditions which includes standard Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions.