The spectrum of the Laplacian on closed manifolds and the heat asymptotics near conical points

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a smooth, closed and connected manifold of dimension $n\in\mathbb{N}$, endowed with a Riemannian metric $g$. Moreover, let $\mathcal{B}$ be an $(n+1)$-dimensional compact manifold with boundary equal to $\mathcal{M}$. Endow $\mathcal{B}$ with a Riemannian metric $h$ such that, in local coordinates $(x,y)\in [0,1)\times \mathcal{M}$ on the collar part of the boundary, it admits the warped product form $h=dx^{2}+x^{2}g(y)$. We consider the homogeneous heat equation on $(\mathcal{B},h)$ and find an arbitrary long asymptotic expansion of the solutions with respect to $x$ near $0$. It turns out that the spectrum of the Laplacian on $(\mathcal{M},g)$ determines explicitly the above asymptotic expansion and vice versa.