The Dirac operator on hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214339790MaRDI QIDQ1609774zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christian Bär

Publication date 15 August 2002

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010233

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^2\) spectrumclustering of eigenvaluesDirac operatorhyperbolic manifolds of finite volumelinking numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: We study the spectrum of the Dirac operator on hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume. Depending on the spin structure it is either discrete or the whole real line. For link complements in S^3 we give a simple criterion in terms of linking numbers for when essential spectrum can occur. We compute the accumulation rate of the eigenvalues of a sequence of closed hyperbolic 2- or 3-manifolds degenerating into a noncompact hyperbolic manifold of finite volume. It turns out that in three dimensions there is no clustering at all.

Review text

Let \((M,g)\) be a hyperbolic manifold of finite volume and dimension \(m\). Assume given a spin structure on \((M,g)\) and let \(D\) be the associated Dirac operator. Let \(\text{spec}(D)\), \(\text{spec}_e(D)\), and \(\text{spec}_d(D)\) be the spectrum, essential spectrum, and discrete spectrum of \(D\), respectively. The author shows: Theorem. If the spin structure is trivial along at least one cusp, then \(\text{spec}(D)=\text{spec}_e(D)=R\). If the spin structure is non-trivial along all cusps, then the spectrum is discrete and \(\text{spec}(D)=\text{spec}_d(D)\). If \(m=2,3\) and if \(M\) has only one cusp, then the spin structure is necessarily non-trivial and hence is discrete. If \(M\) is a surface with at least \(2\) cusps, then both cases can occur; the spin structure can always be made trivial if there are an even number of cusps. In three dimensions, the situation is a bit different. The author shows: \noindent Theorem. Let \(K\subset S^3\) be a link in the \(3\) sphere and let \(M=S^3-K\) carry a hyperbolic metric of finite volume. If the linking number of all pairs of components \((K_i,K_j)\) in \(K\) is even for \(i\neq j\), then the spectrum of the Dirac operator is discrete for all spin structures and \(\text{spec}(D)=\text{spec}_d(D)\). If there are two components so the linking number of \((K_i,K_j)\) is odd for \(i\neq j\), then \(M\) has a spin structure with \(\text{spec}(D)=R\). \smallbreak The author also studies the behavior under the degeneration process in \(2\) and \(3\) dimensions where the spin structure on \(M\) is in a suitable sense the limit of spin structures on the \(M_i\).

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