The Heat Kernel and Theta Inversion on SL2(C)

The purpose of this text is to provide a self-contained development of the trace formula and theta inversion formula for SL(2,Z[i])\SL(2,C). Unlike other treatments of the theory, this one begins with the heat kernel on SL(2,C) associated to the invariant Laplacian, which is derived using spherical inversion.