A unified approach to the small-time behavior of the spectral heat content for isotropic L\'evy processes

Abstract

This paper establishes the precise small-time asymptotic behavior of the spectral heat content for isotropic L\'evy processes on bounded $C^{1,1}$ open sets of $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ with $d\ge 2$, where the underlying characteristic exponents are regularly varying at infinity with index $\alpha\in (1,2]$, including the case $\alpha=2$. Moreover, this asymptotic behavior is shown to be stable under an integrable perturbation of its L\'evy measure. These results cover a wide class of isotropic L\'evy processes, including Brownian motions, stable processes, and jump diffusions, and the proofs provide a unified approach to the asymptotic behavior of the spectral heat content for all of these processes.