Essential spectrum of complete Riemannian manifolds (Q1201601): Difference between revisions

The authors investigate the essential spectrum of the Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds. It was conjectured by Yau that there is no pure point spectrum on a manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature, in other words, the essential spectrum is \([0,+\infty)\). Such a result was confirmed by Escobar for manifolds with nonnegative radical sectional curvature outside a compact set and if the metric is rotationally symmetric. In this paper the authors generalize the Escobar results for wider class of metrics.