Fredholm Theory on Twisted Hilbert Scales: A Frame-Theoretic Approach to Half-Integer Fourier Modes
Abstract
We construct a Hilbert scale on via a unitary twist operator that maps the standard Fourier basis to half-integer frequency exponentials. The resulting weighted spaces, equipped with norms indexed by , admit a canonical diagonal operator with the compact resolvent and spectrum . We prove that this operator defines a Fredholm mapping between adjacent scale levels with index zero, provide an explicit solution to an antiperiodic boundary value problem illustrating the framework, and compute the zeta-regularized determinant using the Hurwitz zeta function. We establish stability under bounded perturbations and verify the well-definedness of spectral flow. The framework is developed entirely through functional-analytic methods without differential operators or boundary value problems. The construction is motivated by twisted spinor boundary conditions on non-orientable manifolds, though the present work is formulated abstractly in operator-theoretic language.
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@article{arxiv.2601.10753,
title = {Fredholm Theory on Twisted Hilbert Scales: A Frame-Theoretic Approach to Half-Integer Fourier Modes},
author = {Anik Chakraborty and Varinder Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.10753},
year = {2026}
}
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