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Heat invariants for odd-dimensional hemispheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

M. van den Berg
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Heriot–Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH 14 4AS, U.K.
Peter B. Gilkey
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, U.S.A.

Abstract

We compute the heat content asymptotics of odd dimensional hemispheres in closed form.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1996

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