@unpublished{BaerGinoux2012, author = {B{\"a}r, Christian and Ginoux, Nicolas}, title = {Classical and quantum fields on Lorentzian manifolds}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59973}, year = {2012}, abstract = {We construct bosonic and fermionic locally covariant quantum fields theories on curved backgrounds for large classes of fields. We investigate the quantum field and n-point functions induced by suitable states.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{BaerPfaeffle2012, author = {B{\"a}r, Christian and Pf{\"a}ffle, Frank}, title = {Wiener measures on Riemannian manifolds and the Feynman-Kac formula}, url =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show that projecting and lifting of paths are inverse operations which respect the Wiener measure.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{BaerBallmann2012, author = {B{\"a}r, Christian and Ballmann, Werner}, title = {Boundary value problems for elliptic differential operators of first order}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-60023}, year = {2012}, abstract = {We study boundary value problems for linear elliptic differential operators of order one. The underlying manifold may be noncompact, but the boundary is assumed to be compact. We require a symmetry property of the principal symbol of the operator along the boundary. This is satisfied by Dirac type operators, for instance. We provide a selfcontained introduction to (nonlocal) elliptic boundary conditions, boundary regularity of solutions, and index theory. In particular, we simplify and generalize the traditional theory of elliptic boundary value problems for Dirac type operators. We also prove a related decomposition theorem, a general version of Gromov and Lawson's relative index theorem and a generalization of the cobordism theorem.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Baer2012, author = {B{\"a}r, Christian}, title = {Renormalized integrals and a path integral formula for the heat kernel on a manifold}, url =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} } @unpublished{Baer2012, author = {B{\"a}r, Christian}, title = {Some properties of solutions to weakly hypoelliptic equations}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-60064}, year = {2012}, abstract = {A linear differential operator L is called weakly hypoelliptic if any local solution u of Lu = 0 is smooth. We allow for systems, i.e. the coefficients may be matrices, not necessarily of square size. This is a huge class of important operators which covers all elliptic, overdetermined elliptic, subelliptic and parabolic equations. We extend several classical theorems from complex analysis to solutions of any weakly hypoelliptic equation: the Montel theorem providing convergent subsequences, the Vitali theorem ensuring convergence of a given sequence, and Riemann's first removable singularity theorem. In the case of constant coefficients we show that Liouville's theorem holds, any bounded solution must be constant and any L^p solution must vanish.}, language = {en} }