Surfaces with boundary: their uniformizations, determinants of Laplacians, and isospectrality

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2006-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/math/0609085v3

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Differential Geometry

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Let \Sigma be a compact surface of type (g, n), n > 0, obtained by removing n disjoint disks from a closed surface of genus g. Assuming \chi(\Sigma)<0, we show that on \Sigma, the set of flat metrics which have the same Laplacian spectrum of Dirichlet boundary condition is compact in the C^\infty topology. This isospectral compactness extends the result of Osgood, Phillips, and Sarnak \cite{OPS3} for type (0,n) surfaces, whose examples include bounded plane domains. Our main ingredients are as following. We first show that the determinant of the Laplacian is a proper function on the moduli space of geodesically bordered hyperbolic metrics on \Sigma. Secondly, we show that the space of such metrics is homeomorphic (in the C^\infty-topology) to the space of flat metrics (on \Sigma) with constantly curved boundary. Because of this, we next reduce the complicated degenerations of flat metrics to the simpler and well-known degenerations of hyperbolic metrics, and we show that determinants of Laplacians of flat metrics on \Sigma, with fixed area and boundary of constant geodesic curvature, give a proper function on the corresponding moduli space. This is interesting because Khuri \cite{Kh} showed that if the boundary length (instead of the area) is fixed, the determinant is not a proper function when \Sigma is of type (g, n), g>0; while Osgood, Phillips, and Sarnak \cite{OPS3} showed the properness when g=0.

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