Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 17 (2021), 083, 40 pages      arXiv:2104.00895      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2021.083
Contribution to the Special Issue on Mathematics of Integrable Systems: Classical and Quantum in honor of Leon Takhtajan

Resolvent Trace Formula and Determinants of $n$ Laplacians on Orbifold Riemann Surfaces

Lee-Peng Teo
Department of Mathematics, Xiamen University Malaysia, Jalan Sunsuria, Bandar Sunsuria, 43900, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia

Received April 07, 2021, in final form September 05, 2021; Published online September 13, 2021

Abstract
For $n$ a nonnegative integer, we consider the $n$-Laplacian $\Delta_n$ acting on the space of $n$-differentials on a confinite Riemann surface $X$ which has ramification points. The trace formula for the resolvent kernel is developed along the line à la Selberg. Using the trace formula, we compute the regularized determinant of $\Delta_n+s(s+2n-1)$, from which we deduce the regularized determinant of $\Delta_n$, denoted by $\det\!'\Delta_n$. Taking into account the contribution from the absolutely continuous spectrum, $\det\!'\Delta_n$ is equal to a constant $\mathcal{C}_n$ times $Z(n)$ when $n\geq 2$. Here $Z(s)$ is the Selberg zeta function of $X$. When $n=0$ or $n=1$, $Z(n)$ is replaced by the leading coefficient of the Taylor expansion of $Z(s)$ around $s=0$ and $s=1$ respectively. The constants $\mathcal{C}_n$ are calculated explicitly. They depend on the genus, the number of cusps, as well as the ramification indices, but is independent of the moduli parameters.

Key words: determinant of Laplacian; $n$-differentials; cocompact Riemann surfaces; Selberg trace formula.

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