On the heat content of compact quantum graphs

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Hauptverfasser: Bifulco, Patrizio, Mugnolo, Delio
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author Bifulco, Patrizio
Mugnolo, Delio
author_facet Bifulco, Patrizio
Mugnolo, Delio
contents We study the heat content for Laplacians on compact, finite metric graphs with Dirichlet conditions imposed at the "boundary" (i.e., a given set of vertices). We prove a closed formula of combinatorial flavour, as it is expressed as a sum over all closed orbits hitting the boundary. Our approach delivers a small-time asymptotic expansion that delivers information on crucial geometric quantities of the metric graph, much in the spirit of the celebrated corresponding result for manifolds due to Gilkey-van den Berg; but unlike other known formulae based on different methods, ours holds for all times $t>0$ and it displays stronger decay rate in the short time limit. Furthermore, we prove new surgery principles for the heat content and use them to derive comparison principles for the heat content between metric graphs of different topology.
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spellingShingle On the heat content of compact quantum graphs
Bifulco, Patrizio
Mugnolo, Delio
Spectral Theory
Analysis of PDEs
Combinatorics
34B45 (05C50 35P15 81Q35)
We study the heat content for Laplacians on compact, finite metric graphs with Dirichlet conditions imposed at the "boundary" (i.e., a given set of vertices). We prove a closed formula of combinatorial flavour, as it is expressed as a sum over all closed orbits hitting the boundary. Our approach delivers a small-time asymptotic expansion that delivers information on crucial geometric quantities of the metric graph, much in the spirit of the celebrated corresponding result for manifolds due to Gilkey-van den Berg; but unlike other known formulae based on different methods, ours holds for all times $t>0$ and it displays stronger decay rate in the short time limit. Furthermore, we prove new surgery principles for the heat content and use them to derive comparison principles for the heat content between metric graphs of different topology.
title On the heat content of compact quantum graphs
topic Spectral Theory
Analysis of PDEs
Combinatorics
34B45 (05C50 35P15 81Q35)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09461