Asymptotics of relative heat traces and determinants on open surfaces of finite area

DOI10.1007/S10455-012-9362-9zbMATH Open1273.58013arXiv1001.2033OpenAlexW2167893396MaRDI QIDQ2392963FDOQ2392963

Clara L. Aldana

Publication date: 5 August 2013

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to prove that on surfaces with asymptotically cusp ends the relative determinant of pairs of Laplace operators is well defined. We consider a surface with cusps (M,g) and a metric h on the surface that is a conformal transformation of the initial metric g. We prove the existence of the relative determinant of the pair $(Delt{a}_h,Delt{a}_g)$ under suitable conditions on the conformal factor. The core of the paper is the proof of the existence of an asymptotic expansion of the relative heat trace for small times. We find the decay of the conformal factor at infinity for which this asymptotic expansion exists and the relative determinant is defined. Following the paper by B. Osgood, R. Phillips and P. Sarnak about extremal of determinants on compact surfaces, we prove Polyakov's formula for the relative determinant and discuss the extremal problem inside a conformal class. We discuss necessary conditions for the existence of a maximizer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.2033

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zbMATH Keywords

heat kernelsasymptotic expansion of heat tracesrelative determinantssurfaces with asymptotically cusp ends

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations of PDEs on manifolds; asymptotics (58J37) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

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