The spectrum of the Laplacian on manifolds with cylindrical ends consists of continuous spectrum of locally finite multiplicity and embedded eigenvalues. We prove a Weyl-type asymptotic formula for the sum of the number of embedded eigenvalues and the scattering phase. In particular, we obtain the optimal upper bound on the number of embedded eigenvalues less than or equal to , where is the dimension of the manifold.
We prove a uniform lower bound for the difference λ₂ - λ₁ between the first two eigenvalues of the fractional Schrödinger operator , 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 appearing in our estimate is independent of the potential V. In the general case of α ∈ (0,2), we also find a uniform lower bound for...
The spectrum of the Laplace operator on algebraic and semialgebraic subsets in is studied and the number of small eigenvalues is estimated by the degree of .
We show that a bi-invariant metric on a compact connected Lie group is spectrally isolated within the class of left-invariant metrics. In fact, we prove that given a bi-invariant metric on there is a positive integer such that, within a neighborhood of in the class of left-invariant metrics of at most the same volume, is uniquely determined by the first distinct non-zero eigenvalues of its Laplacian (ignoring multiplicities). In the case where is simple, can be chosen to be two....
We show that the lowest eigenvalue of the magnetic Schrödinger operator on a line bundle over a compact Riemann surface is bounded by the -norm of the magnetic field . This implies a similar bound on the multiplicity of the ground state. An example shows that this degeneracy can indeed be comparable with even in case of the trivial bundle.
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.
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