Spectral geometry of nuts and bolts. (English) Zbl 1507.58013
Summary: 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 (TN), 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 selfadjoint extensions and study their spectra. In particular, we determine the essential spectrum and prove that its complement, the discrete spectrum, is infinite. We compute some of these eigenvalues numerically and compare the numerical results with an analytical approximation derived from the asymptotic TN form of each of the geometries in our family.
MSC:
| 58J50 | Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds |
Keywords:
gravitational instanton; Laplace operator; spectrum; nuts and bolts; Taub-NUT space; Taub-bolt space; Euclidean Schwarzschild spaceReferences:
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