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Do the Hodge spectra distinguish orbifolds from manifolds? Part 1

Differential Geometry 2021-08-17 v2

Abstract

We examine the relationship between the singular set of a compact Riemannian orbifold and the spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian on pp-forms by computing the heat invariants associated to the pp-spectrum. We show that the heat invariants of the 00-spectrum together with those of the 11-spectrum for the corresponding Hodge Laplacians are sufficient to distinguish orbifolds with singularities from manifolds as long as the singular sets have codimension 3.\le 3. This is enough to distinguish orbifolds from manifolds for dimension 3.\le 3.

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@article{arxiv.2106.07882,
  title  = {Do the Hodge spectra distinguish orbifolds from manifolds? Part 1},
  author = {Katie Gittins and Carolyn Gordon and Magda Khalile and Ingrid Membrillo Solis and Mary Sandoval and Elizabeth Stanhope},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.07882},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Part 2, joint with Juan Pablo Rossetti, will appear. V1 contained in addition to the results in Part 1 sections that examined information contained in the individual $p$-spectra. After realizing that Rossetti had overlapping results, we split the original paper into the current Part 1 together with a strengthened Part 2, joint with Rossetti, that combines our work on the individual $p$-spectra