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In this thesis, we consider some aspects of$noncommutative classical invariant theory$, i.e., noncommutative invariants of$the classical group SL(2, k)$. We develop a$symbolic method$for invariants and covariants, and we use the method to compute some invariant algebras. The subspace$Ĩ$_{d}^{m}of the noncommutative invariant algebra$Ĩ$_{$d$}consisting of homogeneous elements of degree$m$has the structure of a module over the$symmetric group S$_{$m$}. We find the explicit decomposition into irreducible modules. As a consequence, we obtain the$Hilbert series$of the commutative classical invariant algebras. The$Cayley—Sylvester theorem$and the$Hermite reciprocity law$are studied in some detail. We consider a new power series H($Ĩ$_{d},$t$) whose coefficients are the number of irreducible$S$_{$m$}-modules in the decomposition of$Ĩ$_{d}^{m}, and show that it is rational. Finally, we develop some analogues of all this for covariants.

For a sub-Riemannian manifold provided with a smooth volume, we relate the small-time asymptotics of the heat kernel at a point y of the cut locus from x with roughly “how much” y is conjugate to x. This is done under the hypothesis that all minimizers connecting x to y are strongly normal, i.e. all pieces of the trajectory are not abnormal. Our result is a refinement of the one of Leandre 4t log pt(x, y) ! −d2(x, y) for t ! 0, in which only the leading exponential term is detected. Our results are obtained by extending an idea of Molchanov from the Riemannian to the sub-Riemannian case, and some details we get appear to be new even in the Riemannian context. These results permit us to obtain properties of the sub-Riemannian distance starting from those of the heat kernel and vice versa. For the Grushin plane endowed with the Euclidean volume, we get the expansion pt(x, y)  t−5/4 exp(−d2(x, y)/4t) where y is reached from a - Riemannian point x by a minimizing geodesic which is conjugate at y.

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