Kavli IPMU Komaba Seminar

過去の記録 ~03/18次回の予定今後の予定 03/19~

開催情報 月曜日 16:30~18:00 数理科学研究科棟(駒場) 002号室
担当者 河野 俊丈

2008年05月12日(月)

17:00-18:30   数理科学研究科棟(駒場) 002号室
Jean-Michel Bismut 氏 (Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay)
The hypoelliptic Laplacian
[ 講演概要 ]
Let $X$ be a compact Riemannian manifold. The Laplace Beltrami
operator $-\\Delta^{X}$, or more generally the Hodge Laplacian
$\\square^{X}$, is an elliptic second order self adjoint operator on $X$.

We will explain the construction of a deformation of the elliptic
Laplacian to a family of hypoelliptic operators acting on the total
space of the cotangent bundle $\\mathcal{X}$. These operators depend
on a parameter $b>0$, and interpolate between the Hodge Laplacian
(the limit as $b\\to 0$) and the geodesic flow (the limit as $b\\to +
\\infty $).
Actually, the deformed Laplacian is associated with an exotic Hodge
theory on the total space of the cotangent bundle, in which the
standard $L_{2}$ scalar product on forms is replaced by a
symmetric bilinear form of signature $\\left( \\infty, \\infty \\right)$.

This deformation can be understood as a version of the Witten
deformation on the loop space associated with the energy functional.
From a probabilistic point of view, the deformed Laplacian
corresponds to a Langevin process.

The above considerations can also be used in complex geometry, in
which the Dolbeault cohomology is considered instead of the Rham cohomology.

Results obtained with Gilles Lebeau on the analysis of the
hypoelliptic Laplacian will also be presented, as well as
applications to analytic torsion.