Partial collapsing and the spectrum of the Hodge-de Rham operator (Q500387)

The authors examine the spectrum of the Laplacian in a singular setting. Assume given two connected, oriented, compact Riemannian manifolds with a common boundary \(\Sigma\). One takes collared neighborhoods \([0,1]\times\Sigma\) of the boundary in each manifold. A conical metric \(ds^2=dr^2+r^2h\) is taken for \(r>0\) on \(M_1\) and a trumpet metric \(ds^2=dr^2+(1-r)^2h\) is taken on \([0,\frac12]\times\Sigma\) in \(M_2\). The two manifolds are then glued along \(r=\epsilon\). The limit spectrum is then examined; one part comes from \(M_1\) and relates to a good extension of the Laplacian on a manifold with a conical singularity. The other part comes from the collapsing part on \(M_2\); boundary conditions of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer type appear.