Heat trace asymptotics for quantum graphs

Abstract

We consider a quantum graph where the operator contains a potential. We show that this operator admits a heat kernel. Under some assumptions on the potential, this heat kernel admits an asymptotic expansion at t=0 with coefficients that depend on the potential in a universal way. These coefficients are spectral invariants, we compute the first few of them.

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