Spectral Geometry of Nuts and Bolts

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC6996MaRDI QIDQ6386350arXivFDO

Authors Lyonell Boulton, B. J. Schroers, Kim Smedley-Williams

Publication date 21 December 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/AC6996

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

arXiv classification

gr-qc hep-th math-ph math.MP

Abstract: We study the spectrum of Laplace operators on a one-parameter family of gravitational instantons of bi-axial Bianchi IX type coupled to an abelian connection with self-dual curvature. The family of geometries includes the Taub-NUT, Taub-bolt and Euclidean Schwarzschild geometries and interpolates between them. The interpolating geometries have conical singularities along a submanifold of co-dimension two, but we prove that the associated Laplace operators have natural self-adjoint extensions and study their spectra. In particular, we determine the essential spectrum and prove that its complement, the discrete spectrum, is infinite. We compute these eigenvalues numerically and compare the numerical results with an analytical approximation derived from the asymptotic Taub-NUT form of each of the geometries in our family.

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