Regularized $\zeta_{\Delta}(1)$ for Polyhedra

Abstract

Let $X$ be a compact polyhedral surface (a compact Riemann surface with flat conformal metric $\mathfrak{T}$ having conical singularities). The $\zeta$-function $\zeta_\Delta(s)$ of the Friedrichs Laplacian on $X$ is meromorphic in ${\mathbb C}$ with a single simple pole at $s=1$. We define $\operatorname{reg}\zeta_\Delta(1)$ as $\lim\limits_{s\to 1} \bigl( \zeta_\Delta(s)-\frac{ {\rm Area}(X,\mathfrak{T}) }{4\pi(s-1)}\bigr)$. We derive an explicit expression for this spectral invariant through the holomorphic invariants of the Riemann surface $X$ and the (generalized) divisor of the conical points of the metric $\mathfrak{T}$. We study the asymptotics of $\operatorname{reg}\zeta_\Delta(1)$ for the polyhedron obtained by sewing two other polyhedra along segments of small length. In addition, we calculate $\operatorname{reg}\zeta(1)$ for a family of (non-Friedrichs) self-adjoint extensions of the Laplacian on the tetrahedron with all the conical angles equal to $\pi$.