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The adiabatic limit of the connection Laplacian
We study the behaviour of Laplace-type operators H on a complex vector bundle
E M in the adiabatic limit of the base space. This space is a
fibre bundle M B with compact fibres and the limit corresponds to
blowing up directions perpendicular to the fibres by a factor 1/.
Under a gap condition on the fibre-wise eigenvalues we prove existence of
effective operators that provide asymptotics to any order in for H
(with Dirichlet boundary conditions), on an appropriate almost-invariant
subspace of L(E).Comment: To appear in the Journal of Geometric Analysi
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