Spectral asymptotics of Laplace operators on surfaces with cusps.
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.
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
In this paper, we compute the spectrum of the Lichnerowicz laplacian on the symmetric forms of degree 2 on the sphere Sn and the real projective space RPn. This is obtained by generalizing to forms the calculations of the spectrum of the laplacian on fonctions done via restriction of harmonic polynomials on euclidean space.