High orders of Weyl series for the heat content
This article concerns the Weyl series of spectral functions associated with the Dirichlet Laplacian in a d -dimensional domain with a smooth boundary. In the case of the heat kernel, Berry and Howls predicted the asymptotic form of the Weyl series characterized by a set of parameters. Here, we concentrate on another spectral function, the (normalized) heat content. We show on several exactly solvable examples that, for even d , the same asymptotic formula is valid with different values of the parameters. The considered domains are d -dimensional balls and two limiting cases of the elliptic domain with eccentricity ε : a slightly deformed disk ( ε →0) and an extremely prolonged ellipse ( ε →1). These cases include two-dimensional domains with circular symmetry and those with only one shortest periodic orbit for the classical billiard. We also analyse the heat content for the balls in odd dimensions d for which the asymptotic form of the Weyl series changes significantly.