A weak Weyl's law on compact metric measure spaces (Q2210465)

Let us assume that \(M\) is a compact Riemannian manifold. Weyl's asymptotic formula tells us that the number \(N_\omega\) of eigenvalues (counted with multiplicities) of the Laplace-Beltrami operator in the interval \([0,\omega]\) behaves as follows: \[ N_\omega\sim C\mathrm{Vol}(M)\omega^{\dim(M)/2} \] for large \(\omega\). As in this setting balls of the same small radius have roughly the same volume, denoting by \(M_{\omega^{-1/2}}\) the set of centers of balls with radius~\(\omega^{-1/2}\) forming kind of an optimal cover, we have \[ C_1\mathrm{card}(M_{\omega^{-1/2}})\leq N_\omega \leq C_2\mathrm{card}(M_{\omega^{-1/2}}).\tag{Weyl} \] This inequality is the main object of study in the paper under review. The setting is that of a compact metric measure space \((X,d,\mu)\) with some further assumptions. Instead of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, a more general class of operators is studied. Namely non-negative symmetric operators. The main part of the paper is the proof of an estimate similar to (Weyl) in this setting. It splits into the proof of the two corresponding inequalities. The paper further devotes two sections to examples satisfying the assumptions of the theorem: Dirichlet spaces and compact homogeneous sub-Riemannian manifolds.