Holomorphic factorization of determinants of Laplacians using quasi-Fuchsian uniformization (Q2476621)

In this paper the authors prove a rather remarkable formula concerning quasi-Fuchsian groups of genus \(g>0\). These groups parametrize pairs of Riemann surfaces of genus \(g\). To these and an integer \(n \geq 1\) one can associate a Laplace-Beltrami operator. There is a regularization of this. The authors generalize a formula of \textit{L. A. Takhtajan} and \textit{L.-P. Zograf} [Commun. Math. Phys. 239, No. 1--2, 183--240 (2003; Zbl 1065.30046)] from the Fuchsian case to this one. Then they show that there is a formula giving the product of the two normalized functions in terms of a Selberg--type zeta function and a Liouville action function. The proofs are carried out by a deformation argument on Teichmüller space.