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Inverse Mobius Spacetime in 1+1D Quantum Gravity: Functional Analytic Structures, Dirac Spectrum, and Pin Geometry

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-08-21 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry Functional Analysis math.MP

Abstract

In this manuscript, we formulate a (1+1)-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity toy model whose Euclidean spacetime manifold is the M\"obius band MM. Since MM is non-orientable, the relevant spin-statistics structure is Pin rather than Spin. To emphasize the role of orientation reversal, we refer to the universal orientable cover M~\widetilde{M} as the inverse M\"obius band, which resolves the M\"obius twist into an infinite ribbon equipped with a Z\mathbb{Z} deck action. We compute the Stiefel-Whitney classes w1w_1, w2w_2, classify all Pin±\mathrm{Pin}^\pm structures, construct the associated pinor bundles, and analyze the Dirac operator under the twisted equivariance condition ψ(x+1,w)=γwψ(x,w). \psi(x+1, w) = \gamma^w \psi(x, -w). Half-integer momentum quantization, spectral symmetry, vanishing mod-2 index, and ηD(0)=0\eta_D(0) = 0 follow. In JT gravity, the two inequivalent Pin lifts in each parity double the non-perturbative saddle-point sum, yet leave the leading Bekenstein-Hawking entropy unchanged. Full proofs and heat-kernel calculations are provided for completeness.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2507.22417,
  title  = {Inverse Mobius Spacetime in 1+1D Quantum Gravity: Functional Analytic Structures, Dirac Spectrum, and Pin Geometry},
  author = {Anik Chakraborty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.22417},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures. In this version, the author has revised the structure with subsections for clarity, added a conjecture on the Pin factor in the random matrix dual (Remark 5.5), included a new outlook paragraph on foundational gravitational questions with updated references (32 in total, including Einstein 1916 and Rovelli 2004), and made minor typographical fixes

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