Modular forms in the spectral action of Bianchi IX gravitational instantons

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2019)234zbMATH Open1409.83062arXiv1511.05321OpenAlexW2963988963WikidataQ128481117 ScholiaQ128481117MaRDI QIDQ667333FDOQ667333

Authors: Wentao Fan, Farzad Fathizadeh, Matilde Marcolli 

Publication date: 12 March 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Following our result on rationality of the spectral action for Bianchi type-IX cosmological models, which suggests the existence of a rich arithmetic structure in the action, we study the arithmetic and modular properties of the action for an especially interesting family of metrics, namely $SU(2)$-invariant Bianchi IX gravitational instantons. A variant of the previous rationality result is first presented for a time-dependent conformal perturbation of the triaxial Bianchi IX metric which serves as a general form of Bianchi IX gravitational instantons. By exploiting a parametrization of the gravitational instantons in terms of theta functions with characteristics, we show that each Seeley-de Witt coefficient $ilde{a}_{2n}$ appearing in the expansion of their spectral action gives rise to vector-valued and ordinary modular functions of weight 2. We investigate the modular properties of the first three terms $ilde{a}_0$, $ilde{a}_2$ and $ilde{a}_4$ by preforming direct calculations. This guides us to provide spectral arguments for general terms $ilde{a}_{2n}$, which are based on isospectrality of the involved Dirac operators. Special attention is paid to the relation of the new modular functions with well-known modular forms by studying explicitly two different cases of metrics with pairs of rational parameters that belong to two different general families. In the first case, it is shown that by running a summation over a finite orbit of the rational parameters, up to multiplication by the cusp form $Delta$ of weight 12, each term $ilde{a}_{2n}$ lands in the 1-dimensional linear space of modular forms of weight 14. In the second case, it is proved that, after a summation over a finite orbit of the parameters and multiplication by $G_4^4$, where $G_4$ is the Eisenstein series of weight 4, each $ilde{a}_{2n}$ lands in the 1-dimensional linear space of cusp forms of weight 18.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05321

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zbMATH Keywords

heat kernelmodels of quantum gravitynon-commutative geometryEuclidean gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat kernel (35K08) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)

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