The canonical spectrum of projective toric manifolds
Abstract
Let XX be a complex projective toric manifold. We associated to XX, a positive and closed (1,1)(1,1)-current called the canonical toric Kähler current of XX denoted by ωX,canωX,can, and a new invariant called the canonical spectrum of XX. This spectrum is obtained as the set of the eigenvalues of a singular Laplacian defined by ωX,canωX,can and which is described uniquely by the combinatorial structure of XX. The construction of this Laplacian and the study of its spectral properties are the consequence of a generalized spectral theory of Laplacians on compact Kähler manifolds that we develop in this paper.