Polyakov formulas for conical singularities in two dimensions

arXiv2010.02776MaRDI QIDQ6350652FDOQ6350652

Julie Rowlett, Klaus Kirsten, Clara L. Aldana

Publication date: 6 October 2020

Abstract: We investigate the zeta-regularized determinant and its variation in the presence of conical singularities, boundaries, and corners. For surfaces with isolated conical singularities which may also have one or more smooth boundary components, we demonstrate both a variational Polyakov formula as well as an integrated Polyakov formula for the conformal variation of the Riemannian metric with conformal factors which are smooth up to all singular points and boundary components. We demonstrate the analogous result for curvilinear polygonal domains in surfaces. We then specialize to finite circular sectors and cones and via two independent methods obtain variational Polyakov formulas for the dependence of the determinant on the opening angle. Notably, this requires the conformal factor to be logarithmically singular at the vertex. Although these formulas look quite different, we prove that they are indeed equal. We further obtain explicit formulas for the determinant for finite circular sectors and cones.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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