On the First Eigenvalue of Non-Uniformly Elliptic Boundary Value Problems.
Let be a compact manifold let be a finite group acting freely on , and let be the (Fréchet) space of -invariant metric on . A natural conjecture is that, for a generic metric in , all eigenspaces of the Laplacian are irreducible (as orthogonal representations of ). In physics terminology, no “accidental degeneracies” occur generically. We will prove this conjecture when dim dim for all irreducibles of . As an application, we construct isospectral manifolds with simple eigenvalue...
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