Subleading asymptotics of link spectral invariants and homeomorphism groups of surfaces

Abstract

This paper continues the study of link spectral invariants on compact surfaces, introduced in our previous work and shown to satisfy a Weyl law in which they asymptotically recover the Calabi invariant. Here we study their subleading asymp- totics on surfaces of genus zero. We show the subleading asymptotics are bounded for smooth time-dependent Hamiltonians, and recover the Ruelle invariant for au- tonomous disc maps with finitely many critical values. We deduce that the Calabi homomorphism admits infinitely many extensions to the group of compactly sup- ported area-preserving homeomorphisms, and that the kernel of the Calabi homo- morphism on the group of hameomorphisms is not simple.