The Heat Equation for the -Neumann Problem, II

Abstract

Let Ω be a compact complex n + 1-dimensional Hermitian manifold with smooth boundary M. In [2] we proved the following.THEOREM 1. Suppose satisfies condition Z(q) with 0 ≦ q ≦ n. Let □p,q denote the -Laplacian on (p, q) forms onwhich satisfy the -Neumann boundary conditions. Then as t → 0;,(0.1)(If q = n + 1, the -Neumann boundary condition is the Dirichlet boundary condition and the corresponding result is classical.)Theorem 1 is a version for the -Neumann problem of results initiated by Minakshisundaram and Pleijel [8] for the Laplacian on compact manifolds and extended by McKean and Singer [7] to the Laplacian with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions and by Greiner [5] and Seeley [9] to elliptic boundary value problems on compact manifolds with boundary. McKean and Singer go on to show that the coefficients in the trace expansion are integrals of local geometric invariants.