From Zeta Seeds to Spectral Towers

The basic object in the zeta space framework is a seed $$\mathcal S=(\mathcal I,\Gamma,\Pi),$$ where $\mathcal I$ is a singular stratified surface, $\Gamma\subset \mathcal I$ is a distinguished skeletal graph, and $\Pi$ is a finite symmetry group acting on the seed. The decorated version is $$\mathcal S_{\mathrm{dec}}=(\mathcal I,\Gamma,\Pi,\chi,\rho,\mathcal L),$$ where $\chi$ is coloring data, $\rho$ is holonomy or representation data, and $\mathcal L$ is a line bundle or local system. The guiding idea is that the seed itself is not yet a zeta function. Rather, the seed is a geometric object from which several different spectral realizations may be extracted. For example, one may extract a graph-theoretic realization from $\Gamma$, leading naturally to an Ihara-type zeta function. One may also extract a cone-local analytic realization from neighborhoods of the singular points of $\mathcal I$, leading to theta functions, Mellin transforms, and Bessel kernels. These are not separate ob...

Gluing leaves in zeta space and automorphisms on the resulting quotient spaces

Define an analytic planar homotopy $h_t: (0,1) \to (0,1)$ for $t\in[1/3,3]$ where $h_t(x)=e^{\frac{t}{\log x}}$ s.t. $h_{1/3}=e^{\frac{1/3}{\log x}}$ and $h_3=e^{\frac{3}{\log x}}$ for $x\in(0,1)$. I want a rotational homotopy that projects onto the planar homotopy. So, define the equivalence relation on the boundary curves of the closed subset of $(0,1)^2$, that is $h_{1/3}\sim h_3$, where points are identified by straight lines with slope $1$, connecting $h_{1/3}$ and $h_3$. This yields a spherical topology $\mathcal S$ embedded in $(0,1)^3$ with the endpoints of the sphere being singularities at $p=(0,1,1)$ and $q=(1,0,0)$. 

Conceptually it's clear that a projection $\pi: (0,1)^3 \to (0,1)^2$ takes the leaves on $\mathcal S$ to $h_t(x)$ as a double cover. But my main objective of study is to put a metric on $\mathcal S$. The $1$-parameter metric I derived on the planar space is $g_t(r)=\int_{(0,1)} x^{r-1}h_t(x)~dx = 2\sqrt{\frac{t}{r}}K_1(2\sqrt{tr})$ and it measures the distance between the $h_t(x)$ leaves. For example the distance between leaf $t=1/3$ and leaf $t=3$ is $d(1/3,3)= \bigg| g_{1/3}(r)-g_{3}(r) \bigg |.$

If one repeats this gluing process by taking $t\in[1/k,k]$ for every real $k>1$ then one obtains shells, at least mutually diffeomorphic to $\mathcal S$ embedded in $[0,1]^3$ which can be made into a smooth codimension one foliation of $(0,1)^3$ with $k=1$ corresponding to the only codimension two leaf. Call the codimension one set of shells, $\mathcal G$. 

Since the analytic homotopy $h_t(x)$ satisfies

$$t \frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2} h_t(x) = - x \frac{\partial}{\partial x} h_t(x)$$

I would expect a compatible differential equation for $\mathcal G$ s.t. each leaf in $\mathcal G$ corresponds to an instant in time, as was such for $h_t(x)$. This is desirable as it would give a geometric flow that shrinks the surfaces asymptotically to the codimension 2 leaf. 

Some evidence for this already is that the metric $g_t(r)$ satisfies a linear third order PDE and geometric flow

$$t^2 \frac{\partial ^3}{\partial t^3}g_t(r) =r^2 \frac{\partial}{\partial r}g_t(r)$$

where we took the Mellin transform of the leaves of $h_t(x)$ to obtain the desired PDE.

Evidently, the leaves in $\mathcal G$ are compactly supported with sufficient decay properties giving access to the Paley-Wiener theorem, allowing one to conclude analyticity of the Fourier transform of these leaves. 

Now if we act on $\mathcal G$ by rigid automorphisms in $\Bbb R^3$ then the only allowable action is a $360$ degree rotation which leaves the set of leaves in $\mathcal G$ invariant. We can layer on additional symmetry by letting $\mathcal G$ be just one element and taking $\mathcal G_{\alpha}$ for $\alpha=1,2,3,4$ gaining octahedral symmetry. It can be shown that the Euler characteristic vanishes i.e. $\chi(M)=0$ where $M$ is just the union of the $\mathcal G_{\alpha}$ but that is another story. 

How do the automorphisms of $\mathcal G $ interact with the complex space? We know by the Paley-Weiner theorem that analyticity is inherited, but does an automorphism of $\mathcal G$ necessarily correspond to some invariance of the Fourier transform of a generic leave in $\mathcal G$? What I am looking for is some symmetric functional equation in $\Bbb C$ that is unchanged under an automorphism of a generic leaf in $\mathcal G$.

For example clearly $h_t(x)$ is involutive. It also satisfies $h(x^y)=h(x)^{1/y}$ which can be viewed as a eigenfunction problem. I am also reminded of the Mellin transform of the Jacobi third theta function completing the Riemann zeta function and through Poisson summation giving rise to a functional equation on the complex space. But I don't think Poisson summation applies here because $h_t(x)$ is not a series of functions.

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