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Spectral gap lower bound for the one-dimensional fractional Schrödinger operator in the interval

Kamil Kaleta (2012)

Studia Mathematica

We prove a uniform lower bound for the difference λ₂ - λ₁ between the first two eigenvalues of the fractional Schrödinger operator ( - Δ ) α / 2 + V , α ∈ (1,2), with a symmetric single-well potential V in a bounded interval (a,b), which is related to the Feynman-Kac semigroup of the symmetric α-stable process killed upon leaving (a,b). “Uniform” means that the positive constant C α appearing in our estimate λ - λ C α ( b - a ) - α is independent of the potential V. In the general case of α ∈ (0,2), we also find a uniform lower bound for...

Spectral geometry of semi-algebraic sets

Mikhael Gromov (1992)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

The spectrum of the Laplace operator on algebraic and semialgebraic subsets A in R N is studied and the number of small eigenvalues is estimated by the degree of A .

Spectral isolation of bi-invariant metrics on compact Lie groups

Carolyn S. Gordon, Dorothee Schueth, Craig J. Sutton (2010)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We show that a bi-invariant metric on a compact connected Lie group G is spectrally isolated within the class of left-invariant metrics. In fact, we prove that given a bi-invariant metric g 0 on G there is a positive integer N such that, within a neighborhood of g 0 in the class of left-invariant metrics of at most the same volume, g 0 is uniquely determined by the first N distinct non-zero eigenvalues of its Laplacian (ignoring multiplicities). In the case where G is simple, N can be chosen to be two....

Spectral shift and multiplicity of the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Schrödinger operator in two dimensions

László Erdős (2002)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We show that the lowest eigenvalue of the magnetic Schrödinger operator on a line bundle over a compact Riemann surface M is bounded by the L 1 -norm of the magnetic field B . This implies a similar bound on the multiplicity of the ground state. An example shows that this degeneracy can indeed be comparable with M | B | even in case of the trivial bundle.

Spectral theory of invariant operators, sharp inequalities, and representation theory

Branson, Thomas (1997)

Proceedings of the 16th Winter School "Geometry and Physics"

The paper represents the lectures given by the author at the 16th Winter School on Geometry and Physics, Srni, Czech Republic, January 13-20, 1996. He develops in an elegant manner the theory of conformal covariants and the theory of functional determinant which is canonically associated to an elliptic operator on a compact pseudo-Riemannian manifold. The presentation is excellently realized with a lot of details, examples and open problems.

Spectral theory of translation surfaces : A short introduction

Luc Hillairet (2009/2010)

Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie

We define translation surfaces and, on these, the Laplace operator that is associated with the Euclidean (singular) metric. This Laplace operator is not essentially self-adjoint and we recall how self-adjoint extensions are chosen. There are essentially two geometrical self-adjoint extensions and we show that they actually share the same spectrum

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