Amenability and the spectrum of the Laplacian

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-14973-4zbMath0489.58033OpenAlexW1988910853MaRDI QIDQ3951289

Robert Brooks

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0273-0979-1982-14973-4

zbMATH Keywords

spectrumuniversal coveramenable fundamental groupfoliation of compact manifoldgeometry of Laplacianspectral geometry of leaves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

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• Foliations of polynomial growth are hyperfinite
• The fundamental group and the spectrum of the Laplacian
• A note on curvature and fundamental group
• A generalization of the Poincaré-Bendixson theorem for foliations of codimension one
• The Spectral Geometry of Foliations
• On groups with full Banach mean value

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