Normalized Ricci flow on Riemann surfaces and determinant of Laplacian

DOI10.1007/S11005-005-1451-2MaRDI QIDQ812960zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexey Kokotov, D. Korotkin

Publication date 30 January 2006

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405010

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci flowRiemann surfacesdeterminant of Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52)

Abstract: In this note we give a simple proof of the fact that the determinant of Laplace operator in smooth metric over compact Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus $g$ monotonously grows under the normalized Ricci flow. Together with results of Hamilton that under the action of the normalized Ricci flow the smooth metric tends asymptotically to metric of constant curvature for $ggeq1$, this leads to a simple proof of Osgood-Phillips-Sarnak theorem stating that that within the class of smooth metrics with fixed conformal class and fixed volume the determinant of Laplace operator is maximal on metric of constant curvatute.

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