Mourre estimates for compatible Laplacians on complete manifolds with corners of codimension 2 (Q1941077)

Among the most important goals of the spectral analysis of self-adjoint operators are to prove the absence of a singular continuous spectrum, to calculate the essential spectrum and to describe some features of the pure point spectrum. In this paper, the author accomplishes some of these results for compatible Laplacians on complete manifolds with corners of codimension \(2\). More precisely, he applies Mourre theory to compatible Laplacians on complete manifolds with corners of codimension \(2\) in order to prove absence of a singular continuous spectrum, that non-threshold eigenvalues have finite multiplicity and can accumulate only at thresholds or infinity. It turns out that the use of Mourre estimates on manifolds with cylindrical ends is crucial where the results are both expected and consequences of more general theorems. In any case, the author also provides a description, of interest by its own, of Mourre theory in this context that makes the text complete and suggests generalizations to manifolds with corners of higher order codimension.