Spinors and forms on the ball and the generalized cone (Q1304455)

The authors discuss various types of eigenforms that exist on the generalized cone. Then they construct the \(\zeta\) functions and heat-kernel coefficients obtaining a formula for the \(p\)-form coefficients on the generalized cone in terms of those on its base for a ``modified'' coexact \(p\)-form. This structure is applied to the case of a ball, and the authors find a compact expression for the relevant \(p\)-form \(\zeta\) function on the sphere in terms of Barnes \(\zeta\) functions. It is also possible to express these as a sum of 0-form \(\zeta\) functions. Moreover the authors find the expression for arbitrary coefficients in terms of binomial coefficients and polynomials, compute functional determinants and apply their general method for spinors. This note is useful for the analysis of some pseudodifferential operators and is purely algebraic. Aim of the authors is to construct an algebra of pseudodifferential operators. This construction recovers many classes of differentiable groupoids, it is obtained considering families of pseudodifferential operators along the fiber of the domain or source map of the groupoid. The authors consider, for any almost differentiable groupoids, the fibers \(\Gamma_x= d^{-1}(x)\) of the domain map \(d\) which consist of all arrows with domain \(x\). Then from the definition of an almost differentiable groupoid it follows that these fibers are smooth manifold without corners. The authors also give a new proof of the Poincare'-Birkhoff-Witt theorem for Lie algebroids and a quantization of the Lie-Poisson structure on the dual of a Lie algebroid.