Absence of eigenvalue at the bottom of the continuous spectrum on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds (Q2392960)

In the paper the following asymptotically hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds \(M\) are considered. There is a compact subset \(K\) whose boundary \(S=\partial K\) is of codimension \(1\). The complement \(M-K\) is isometric to \(\left([R,\infty)\times S, dr^2+e^{2r} g(r)\right)\) where \(g(r)\) is a family of metrics on \(S\) depending smoothly on \(r\). In addition \(g(r)\) converges for \(r\to \infty\) to a fixed metric \(\overline{g}\). For this class of Riemannian manifolds it is shown that the bottom of the continuous spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator is not an eigenvalue.