Analytic torsion for surfaces with cusps. I: Compact perturbation theorem and anomaly formula

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Abstract: Let overlineM be a compact Riemann surface and let gTM be a metric over overlineMsetminusDM, where DMsubsetoverlineM is a finite set of points. We suppose that gTM is equal to the Poincar'e metric over a punctured disks around the points of DM. The metric gTM endows the twisted canonical line bundle omegaM(D) with the induced Hermitian norm |cdot|M over overlineMsetminusDM. Let (xi,hxi) be a holomorphic Hermitian vector bundle over overlineM. In this article we define the analytic torsion T(gTM,hxiotimes|cdot|M2n) associated with (M,gTM) and (xiotimesomegaM(D)n,hxiotimes|cdot|M2n) for nleq0. We prove that T(gTM,hxiotimes|cdot|M2n) is related to the analytic torsion of non-cusped surfaces. Then we prove the anomaly formula for the associated Quillen norm. The results of this paper will be used in the sequel to study the regularity of the Quillen norm and its asymptotics in a degenerating family of Riemann surfaces with cusps and to prove the curvature theorem. We also prove that our definition of the analytic torsion for hyperbolic surfaces is compatible with the one obtained through Selberg trace formula by Takhtajan-Zograf.


The author defines the analytic torsion associated with a Riemann surface endowed with a metric having Poincaré-type singularities in the neighborhood of a finite number of points and a Hermitian vector bundle with at most logarithmic singularities at those points, coming from the metric on the negative power of the canonical line bundle twisted by the divisor of the points. The author provides a relation between this analytic torsion and the Ray-Singer analytic torsion of the compactified surface. This relation implies the anomaly formula describing how the analytic torsion varies under the change of the metric on the surface and on the vector bundle.



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