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Fredholm Theory on Twisted Hilbert Scales: A Frame-Theoretic Approach to Half-Integer Fourier Modes

Functional Analysis 2026-01-19 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We construct a Hilbert scale on L2([0,1])L^2([0,1]) 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 (1+k+122)s(1+|k+\tfrac{1}{2}|^2)^s, admit a canonical diagonal operator with the compact resolvent and spectrum {k+12}kZ\{k+\tfrac{1}{2}\}_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}. 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 detζ(A~)=2\det_\zeta(|\widetilde{A}|) = 2 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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