@unpublished{BaerPfaeffle2012, author = {B{\"a}r, Christian and Pf{\"a}ffle, Frank}, title = {Wiener measures on Riemannian manifolds and the Feynman-Kac formula}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59998}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This is an introduction to Wiener measure and the Feynman-Kac formula on general Riemannian manifolds for Riemannian geometers with little or no background in stochastics. We explain the construction of Wiener measure based on the heat kernel in full detail and we prove the Feynman-Kac formula for Schr{\"o}dinger operators with bounded potentials. We also consider normal Riemannian coverings and show that projecting and lifting of paths are inverse operations which respect the Wiener measure.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{HoegeleRuffino2013, author = {H{\"o}gele, Michael and Ruffino, Paulo}, title = {Averaging along L{\´e}vy diffusions in foliated spaces}, issn = {2193-6943}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-64926}, year = {2013}, abstract = {We consider an SDE driven by a L{\´e}vy noise on a foliated manifold, whose trajectories stay on compact leaves. We determine the effective behavior of the system subject to a small smooth transversal perturbation of positive order epsilon. More precisely, we show that the average of the transversal component of the SDE converges to the solution of a deterministic ODE, according to the average of the perturbing vector field with respect to the invariant measures on the leaves (of the unpertubed system) as epsilon goes to 0. In particular we give upper bounds for the rates of convergence. The main results which are proved for pure jump L{\´e}vy processes complement the result by Gargate and Ruffino for Stratonovich SDEs to L{\´e}vy driven SDEs of Marcus type.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Baer2012, author = {B{\"a}r, Christian}, title = {Renormalized integrals and a path integral formula for the heat kernel on a manifold}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-60052}, year = {2012}, abstract = {We introduce renormalized integrals which generalize conventional measure theoretic integrals. One approximates the integration domain by measure spaces and defines the integral as the limit of integrals over the approximating spaces. This concept is implicitly present in many mathematical contexts such as Cauchy's principal value, the determinant of operators on a Hilbert space and the Fourier transform of an L^p function. We use renormalized integrals to define a path integral on manifolds by approximation via geodesic polygons. The main part of the paper is dedicated to the proof of a path integral formula for the heat kernel of any self-adjoint generalized Laplace operator acting on sections of a vector bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold.}, language = {en} }