RENORMALIZED LAPLACIANS ON A CLASS OF HILBERT MANIFOLDS AND A BOCHNER–WEITZENBÖCK TYPE FORMULA FOR CURRENT GROUPS
We define renormalized Laplacians and investigate their properties for a class of C2 functions on Hilbert manifolds modeled on a Hilbert space Hs(M, V) of sections of Sobolev class Hs of some vector bundle V based on a closed Riemannian manifold M, and such that the transition maps of the Hilbert manifold are pseudo-differential operators acting on smooth sections of the bundle V. Among these manifolds we find current groups Hs(M, G), s> dim M/2 where M is a closed manifold and G a Lie group. Weighted Laplacians are renormalized Laplacians which coincide with ordinary Laplacians when the underlying manifold M reduces to a point. We prove a Bochner–Weitzenböck type formula for weighted Laplacians and we point out how in some cases it can reduce to a relation of the type [Δ,∇]f= Ricci (∇f, ·) for a class of functions on certain current groups. Another type of renormalized Laplacian we define are Lévy-type Laplacians which coincide with Lévy Laplacians when the underlying manifold M is one-dimensional. We describe them as limit generators for a one-parameter family of regularized Brownian motions.