Inverse Mobius Spacetime in 1+1D Quantum Gravity: Functional Analytic Structures, Dirac Spectrum, and Pin Geometry
Abstract
In this manuscript, we formulate a (1+1)-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity toy model whose Euclidean spacetime manifold is the M\"obius band . Since 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 as the inverse M\"obius band, which resolves the M\"obius twist into an infinite ribbon equipped with a deck action. We compute the Stiefel-Whitney classes , , classify all structures, construct the associated pinor bundles, and analyze the Dirac operator under the twisted equivariance condition Half-integer momentum quantization, spectral symmetry, vanishing mod-2 index, and 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