Open Problems
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DOI:
10.1090/surv/222/10
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2022-01
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Kefeng Liu
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Kefeng Liu
Compute the Green’s functions for a flat torus. The heat kernel for the torus can be computed by looking into the dual lattice that defines the torus (see §9.5 of [1]). Green’s function can be obtained by integrating the heat kernel in time, after subtracting the constant term. But this is complicated to be expressed in a nice form. For two dimensional tori, Green’s function can be expressed in terms of automorphic forms (see Chapter 2 of Serge Lang’s book [2]). D’Hoker and Phong [3] studied the conformally invariant Green’s function on curves of higher genus, which admits an expression in terms of theta functions (more precisely, in terms of the “prime form”). It is attractive since it depends only on the complex structure and not the metric, and it is used frequently in string theory. In my survey article for IMU [4], I suggested to study zeros and critical points of eigenfunctions, Green’s function and heat kernel. The best testing problem is on flat tori where the problem is already deep and difficult. C.-L. Wang and C.-S. Lin [5] made fundamental progress in the two dimensional case. C.-S. Lin was able to relate it to arithmetic of elliptic