Explicit Laplace Spectra of Homogeneous Principal Bundles

Abstract

We present a unified representation-theoretic method to compute the Laplace-Beltrami spectrum on homogeneous principal bundles. For this setting, we introduce a multi-parameter family of metric deformations called generalized canonical variations. Building upon the geometric realization of such fibrations as naturally reductive spaces, we establish a simplified spectral branching criterion. We apply this method to derive the full spectra (yielding all eigenvalues and multiplicities) for several prominent geometric families. Specifically, we compute the full spectra for the entire classical series of homogeneous 3-$(\alpha,\delta)$-Sasaki manifolds (Types A, B, C, and D) and for real and complex Stiefel manifolds over Grassmannians. These explicit formulas provide the analytical data to investigate related problems in geometric analysis. As an application, we classify the scalar stability of these spaces under Perelman's $\nu$-entropy and, for the 3-$(\alpha,\delta)$-Sasaki manifolds, determine the exact thresholds for Yamabe bifurcations.