Levy Laplacian on manifold and heat flows of differential forms

Abstract

The Levy Laplacian is an infinite-dimensional differential operator, which is interesting for its connection with the Yang-Mills gauge fields. The article proves the equivalence of various definitions of the Levy Laplacian on the manifold of $H^1$-paths on a Riemannian manifold. The heat equation with the Levy Laplacian is considered. The tendency of some solutions of this heat equation to the locally constant functionals as time tends to infinity is studied. These solutions are constructed using heat flows of differential forms on the compact Riemannian manifold.