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Formulæ for the heat kernel of an elliptic operator exhibiting small-time asymptotics

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Watling, K.D. (1988). Formulæ for the heat kernel of an elliptic operator exhibiting small-time asymptotics. In: Truman, A., Davies, I.M. (eds) Stochastic Mechanics and Stochastic Processes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0077926

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