The spectrum on $p$-forms of a lens space

Abstract

We give an explicit description of the spectrum of the Hodge--Laplace operator on $p$-forms of an arbitrary lens space for any $p$. We write the two generating functions encoding the $p$-spectrum as rational functions. As a consequence, we prove a geometric characterization of lens spaces that are $p$-isospectral for every $p$ in an interval of the form $[0,p_0]$.