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The spectrum of the Laplacian on forms.

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

The essential spectrum of the Laplacian on functions over a noncompact Riemannian manifold has been extensively studied. It is known that on hyperbolic space a spectral gap appears, whereas is has been conjectured that on manifolds with uniformly subexponential volume growth and Ricci curvature bounded below the essential spectrum is the nonnegative real line. Much less is known for the spectrum of the Laplacian on differential forms. In our work we prove a generalization of Weyl's criterion for the essential spectrum of a self-adjoint and nonnegative operator on a Hilbert space. We use this criterion to study the spectrum of the Laplacian on k-forms over an open manifold. We first show that the spectrum of the Laplacian on 1-forms always contains the spectrum of the Laplacian on functions. We also study the spectrum of the Laplacian on k-forms under a continuous deformation of the metric. The results that we obtain allow us to compute the spectrum of the Laplacian on k-forms over asymptotically flat manifolds. This is joint work with Zhiqin Lu.

Mathematics; Geometry; Partial differential equations; Differential geometry

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Author affiliation: University of Cyprus

2017-06-12

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61921

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/