Zeta-determinants of Sturm-Liouville operators with quadratic potentials at infinity

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2016.11.033MaRDI QIDQ730126zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luiz Hartmann, Matthias Lesch, Boris Vertman

Publication date 23 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07240

Sturm-Liouville operators zeta determinant zeta function

Miscellaneous topics of analysis in the complex plane (30E99) Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

Abstract: We consider Sturm-Liouville operators on a half line

[a, i n f t y), a > 0

, with potentials that are growing at most quadratically at infinity. Such operators arise naturally in the analysis of hyperbolic manifolds, or more generally manifolds with cusps. We establish existence and a formula for the associated zeta-determinant in terms of the Wronski-determinant of a fundamental system of solutions adapted to the boundary conditions. Despite being the natural objects in the context of hyperbolic geometry, spectral geometry of such operators has only recently been studied in the context of analytic torsion.

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The authors consider the operator \[ H=-\frac{d}{dx}\Bigl(x^{2}\frac{d}{dx}\cdot\Bigr)+x^{2}\mu^{2}-\frac{1}{4}+V(x) \] on functions from the interval \([a,\infty)\), \(a>0\) to \(\mathbb{C}\), satisfying a certain boundary condition \(R_{a}\). The main result (Theorem 1.2) is the following. Fix any \(\nu\geq0\) and suppose \(V\in\{x^{\gamma}g\;|\;g\in L^{1}[a,\infty)\}\) for a fixed \(\gamma<2\). Then \(H+\nu^{2}\) is self-adjoint with a discrete spectrum. Its \(\zeta\)-function, defined by \[ \zeta_{H+\nu^{2}}(s):=\sum_{\lambda\in\mathrm{spec}(H+\nu^{2})}\lambda^{-s} \] admits a meromorphic continuation into a half plane \{\(z\in\mathbb{C}\;|\;{\mathrm{Re}(z)>r}\}\) for some \(r<0\). Therefore, its zeta-regularized determinant \(\log\det\zeta_{H+\nu^{2}}:=-\zeta_{H+\nu^{2}}'(0)\) is well-defined. Furthermore, the authors have an explicit formula for this determinant in terms of the Wronkian of a fundamental solution to the differential equation \((H+\nu^{2})(f)=0\) with boundary condition \(R_{a}\). This work is related to earlier works by Burghelea, Friedlander and Kappeler, and the authors; and is motivated by recent studies on analytic torsions on hyperbolic manifolds.

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