Removable sets and \(L^p\)-uniqueness on manifolds and metric measure spaces (Q6170421)

By establishing a linear truncation result for nonnegative potential functions on a metric measure space, the preservation of the essential self-adjointness or \(L_p\)-uniqueness are derived under the removal of a small closed set from the space, where the small closed set is only characterized by capacities and Hausdorff dimension. The main result is appled to the Laplace operator on Riemannian manifolds, sub-Riemannian manifolds, and metric measures paces, satisfying curvature-dimension conditions. Moreover, for non-collapsing Ricci limits paces with two sided Ricci curvature bounds, it is proved that the self-adjoint Laplacian is fully determined by the classical Laplacian on the regular part.