\(L^p\)-spectrum of the Dirac operator on products with hyperbolic spaces (Q343010)

If \((M,g)\) is a compact Riemannian manifold, then the spectrum of the Laplacian on \(L^p(M)\) agrees the \(L^2\) spectrum. But the situation is completely different if \(M\) is non-compact and complete. In the present paper, the authors determine the \(L^p\) spectrum in the special case that \(M\) is a product of a compact manifold with factors which are either flat space or rescaled hyperbolic spaces, i.e. simply connected spaces of non-positive sectional curvature. The focus is on the Dirac operator as the spinorial context is particularly amenable to these techniques. These examples illustrate the fact that the spectrum can vary with \(p\). The first section contains an introduction to the subject and presents the basic results. The second section deals with preliminaries. \S2.1 gives notational conventions, \S2.2 introduces hyperbolic spaces, \S2.3 deals with spin geometry, \S2.4 discusses dual spinors, \S2.5 presents spinors on product manifolds, \S2.6 gives the \(L^2\) spectrum of the Dirac operator, \S2.7 is a covering lemma, and \S2.8 involves interpolation theorems. Section 3 deals with the Green's function. \S4 is concerned with the Dirac operator on a product of hyperbolic spaces. \S4.1 deals with foliations, \S4.2 gives the Dirac operator in polar coordinates, \S4.3 presents the action of the spin group on products with a hyperbolic space, and \S4.4 discusses spinners on the standard round sphere in Euclidean space. In \S5, the authors discuss modes of spin equivariant maps and \S6 gives decay estimates for a fixed mode. A decomposition of the Green's function is given in \S7 and the \(L^p\) spectrum is discussed in \S8. In \S9 test spinors are introduced on hyperbolic space and in \S10, the \(L^p\) spectrum is treated once again. There are two appendices. One deals with spinorial function spaces and one gives general notes on \(L^p\) spaces.