The analytic Carathéodory conjecture.
A perturbation of the de Rham complex was introduced by Witten for an exact 1-form and later extended by Novikov for a closed 1-form on a Riemannian manifold . We use invariance theory to show that the perturbed index density is independent of ; this result was established previously by J. A. Álvarez López, Y. A. Kordyukov and E. Leichtnam (2020) using other methods. We also show the higher order heat trace asymptotics of the perturbed de Rham complex exhibit nontrivial dependence on . We establish...