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A Parametrix Construction for the Laplacian on Q-rank 1 Locally Symmetric Space
This paper presents the construction of parametrices for the Gauss-Bonnet and
Hodge Laplace operators on noncompact manifolds modelled on Q-rank 1 locally
symmetric spaces. These operators are, up to a scalar factor,
-differential operators, that is, they live in the generalised
-calculus studied by the authors in a previous paper, which extends work
of Melrose and Mazzeo. However, because they are not totally elliptic elements
in this calculus, it is not possible to construct parametrices for these
operators within the -calculus. We construct parametrices for them in
this paper using a combination of the -pseudodifferential operator calculus
of R. Melrose and the -pseudodifferential operator calculus. The
construction simplifies and generalizes the construction done by Vaillant in
his thesis for the Dirac operator.
In addition, we study the mapping properties of these operators and determine
the appropriate Hlibert spaces between which the Gauss-Bonnet and Hodge Laplace
operators are Fredholm. Finally, we establish regularity results for elements
of the kernels of these operators.Comment: 29 pages; in revision: improved exposition, unified use of rescaled
bundles and half densities, corrected misprint
Pseudodifferential operator calculus for generalized Q-rank 1 locally symmetric spaces, I
This paper is the first of two papers constructing a calculus of
pseudodifferential operators suitable for doing analysis on Q-rank 1 locally
symmetric spaces and Riemannian manifolds generalizing these. This
generalization is the interior of a manifold with boundary, where the boundary
has the structure of a tower of fibre bundles. The class of operators we
consider on such a space includes those arising naturally from metrics which
degenerate to various orders at the boundary, in directions given by the tower
of fibrations. As well as Q-rank 1 locally symmetric spaces, examples include
Ricci-flat metrics on the complement of a divisor in a smooth variety
constructed by Tian and Yau. In this first part of the calculus construction,
parametrices are found for "fully elliptic differential \bfa-operators", which
are uniformly elliptic operators on these manifolds that satisfy an additional
invertibility condition at infinity. In the second part we will consider
operators that do not satisfy this condition.Comment: 44 pages, 2 figures -- Some explanations, references added; changed
normalization of index sets in full calculus to make it more natural; made
full calculus composition result more complet
Harmonic forms on manifolds with edges
Let be a compact Riemannian stratified space with simple edge
singularity. Thus a neighbourhood of the singular stratum is a bundle of
truncated cones over a lower dimensional compact smooth manifold. We calculate
the various polynomially weighted de Rham cohomology spaces of , as well as
the associated spaces of harmonic forms. In the unweighted case, this is
closely related to recent work of Cheeger and Dai \cite{CD}. Because the metric
is incomplete, this requires a consideration of the various choices of
ideal boundary conditions at the singular set. We also calculate the space of
harmonic forms for any complete edge metric on the regular part of
Hodge and signature theorems for a family of manifolds with fibre bundle boundary
Over the past fifty years, Hodge and signature theorems have been proved for various classes of noncompact and incomplete Riemannian manifolds. Two of these classes are manifolds with incomplete cylindrical ends and manifolds with cone bundle ends, that is, whose ends have the structure of a fibre bundle over a compact oriented manifold, where the fibres are cones on a second fixed compact oriented manifold. In this paper, we prove Hodge and signature theorems for a family of metrics on a manifold M with fibre bundle boundary that interpolates between the incomplete cylindrical metric and the cone bundle metric on M . We show that the Hodge and signature theorems for this family of metrics interpolate naturally between the known Hodge and signature theorems for the extremal metrics. The Hodge theorem involves intersection cohomology groups of varying perversities on the conical pseudomanifold X that completes the cone bundle metric on M . The signature theorem involves the summands τ i of Dai’s τ invariant [J Amer Math Soc 4 (1991) 265–321] that are defined as signatures on the pages of the Leray–Serre spectral sequence of the boundary fibre bundle of M . The two theorems together allow us to interpret the τ i in terms of perverse signatures, which are signatures defined on the intersection cohomology groups of varying perversities on X
L2 harmonic forms for a class of complete Kahler metrics
The Hodge theorem for compact manifolds states that every real cohomology class
of a compact manifold M is represented by a unique harmonic form. That is, the
space of solutions to the differential equation .d Cd
/ D 0 on L2 forms over M;
a space that depends on the metric on M; is canonically isomorphic to the purely
topological real cohomology space of M: This isomorphism is enormously useful
because it provides a way to transform theorems from geometry into theorems in
topology and vice versa. No such result holds in general for complete noncompact
manifolds, but in many specific cases there are Hodge-type theorems. One of the
oldest is the description, due to Atiyah, Patodi, and Singer [1], of the space of L2
harmonic forms on a manifold with complete cylindrical ends. By calculating the
solutions to the equation for harmonic forms on the cylindrical ends, they showed
that the space of L2 harmonic forms is isomorphic to the image of the relative cohomology
of the manifold in the absolute cohomology. Another Hodge-type result
was found by Zucker [14] for a natural class of metrics called Poincaré metrics.
These metrics, first constructed by Cornalba and Griffiths [4], are complete Kähler
metrics with hyperbolic cusp-type singularities at isolated points on a Riemann
surface. Zucker showed that the space of L2 forms on a Riemann surface that are
harmonic with respect one of these metrics is isomorphic to the standard cohomology
of the surface. This result was extended by Cattani, Kaplan, and Schmid [3]
to analogous metrics on bundles over projective varieties with singularities along
a divisor. These metrics can be thought of as complete Kähler metrics on the noncompact
manifold given by removing the divisor
Hodge cohomology of gravitational instantons
We study the space of L^2 harmonic forms on complete manifolds with metrics
of fibred boundary or fibred cusp type. These metrics generalize the geometric
structures at infinity of several different well-known classes of metrics,
including asymptotically locally Euclidean manifolds, the (known types of)
gravitational instantons, and also Poincar\'e metrics on Q-rank 1 ends of
locally symmetric spaces and on the complements of smooth divisors in K\"ahler
manifolds. The answer in all cases is given in terms of intersection cohomology
of a stratified compactification of the manifold. The L^2 signature formula
implied by our result is closely related to the one proved by Dai [dai] and
more generally by Vaillant [Va], and identifies Dai's tau invariant directly in
terms of intersection cohomology of differing perversities. This work is also
closely related to a recent paper of Carron [Car] and the forthcoming paper of
Cheeger and Dai [CD]. We apply our results to a number of examples,
gravitational instantons among them, arising in predictions about L^2 harmonic
forms in duality theories in string theory.Comment: 45 pages; corrected final version. To appear in Duke Math. Journa
Analysis of Schr\"odinger operators with inverse square potentials I: regularity results in 3D
Let be a potential on \RR^3 that is smooth everywhere except at a
discrete set \maS of points, where it has singularities of the form
, with for close to and continuous on
\RR^3 with for p \in \maS. Also assume that and
are smooth outside \maS and is smooth in polar coordinates around each
singular point. We either assume that is periodic or that the set \maS is
finite and extends to a smooth function on the radial compactification of
\RR^3 that is bounded outside a compact set containing \maS. In the
periodic case, we let be the periodicity lattice and define \TT :=
\RR^3/ \Lambda. We obtain regularity results in weighted Sobolev space for the
eigenfunctions of the Schr\"odinger-type operator acting on
L^2(\TT), as well as for the induced \vt k--Hamiltonians \Hk obtained by
restricting the action of to Bloch waves. Under some additional
assumptions, we extend these regularity and solvability results to the
non-periodic case. We sketch some applications to approximation of
eigenfunctions and eigenvalues that will be studied in more detail in a second
paper.Comment: 15 pages, to appear in Bull. Math. Soc. Sci. Math. Roumanie, vol. 55
(103), no. 2/201