Heat content and small time asymptotics for Schrödinger operators on $R^d$

Abstract: This paper studies the heat content} for Schr\"odinger operators of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$, $0<\alpha\leq 2$ in $R^d$, $d\geq 1$. Employing probabilistic and analytic techniques, a small time asymptotic expansion formula is given and the "heat content invariants" are identified. These results are new even in the case of the Laplacian, $\alpha=2$.