Growth of the eigensolutions of Laplacians on Riemannian manifolds. II: Positivity of the initial energy (Q1664575)

The reviewed paper is the second in a series that discusses the growth of eigen-solutions of \(-\Delta u+Vu=\lambda u\) on connected non-compact complete Riemannian manifolds. The author gives an effective and new way to verify the positivity (or non-negativity) of the initial energy for non-simply connected manifolds. Using a class of test functions introduced by \textit{H. Kumura} [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 43, No. 5, 985--1003 (2011; Zbl 1227.58009)] and developing the methods of that paper, the author proves that \(u\) is exponentially decaying. For Part I, see [the author, ``Growth of the eigensolutions of Laplacians on Riemannian manifolds I: construction of energy function'', Int. Math. Res. Not. (to appear), \url{arXiv:1709.02914}].