On the nature of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Lipschitz manifolds (Q549438)

The paper under review is concerned with several qualitative properties of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Lipschitz surfaces and on Lipschitz manifolds. The authors establish related invertibility properties, as well as results on the nature of the spectrum and the regularity of eigenfunctions. The analysis is developed in the framework of general strongly elliptic operators in divergence-form with bounded, measurable, complex matrix-valued coefficients.