The Heat Kernel on Constant Negative Curvature Space Form

Abstract

Let M be a n-dimensional simply connected, complete Riemannian manifold with constant negative curvature. The heat kernel on M is denoted by H^M_t(x, y) = H^M_t(r(x, y)), where r(x, y) = dist(x, y). We have the explicit formula of H^M_t(x, y) for n=2, 3, and the induction formula of H^M_t(x, y) for n ≥ 4^{[-1]}. But the explicit formula is very complicated for n ≥ 4. ln this paper we give some simple and useful global estimates of H^M_t(x, y), and apply these estimates to the problem of eigenvalue.