Abstract
The sum of squares of wavelengths of a closed surface
Kate Okikiolu
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
For the Laplacian on a closed manifold, we define a spectral invariant which is heuristically the sum of squares of the wavelengths which is a regularized trace of the inverse of the Laplacian. On a technical level, this is an analog for surfaces of the ADM mass from general relativity. We discuss a negative mass theorem for surfaces of positive genus, and give a probabilistic interpretation.
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