Some results on the essential spectrum

Publication date 11 September 1994

Published in Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

geodesic ball Laplacian sectional curvature

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

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There are very few results on the essential spectrum of the Laplacian on a noncompact complete manifold. In 1981, \textit{H. Donnelly} [Topology 20, 1-14 (1981; Zbl 0463.53027)] proved that the essential spectrum of a simply connected negatively curved Riemannian manifolds whose sectional curvature tends to \(-a\) at infinity is \([{1 \over 4} a(n-1)^ 2,+\infty)\); furthermore he and \textit{P. Li} [Duke Math. J. 46, 497-503 (1979; Zbl 0416.58025)] pointed out that under the same topological and geometric assumptions, if \(a = + \infty\), then its essential spectrum is an empty set. In this paper, we have the following theorems. Theorem 1. Suppose \(M\) is an \(n\)-dimensional noncompact complete Riemannian manifold with a pole and nonnegative Ricci curvature outside a compact set, then its essential spectrum is \([0,+\infty)\). Theorem 2. Suppose \(M\) is an \(n\)-dimensional noncompact complete Riemannian manifold with a rotational symmetric metric, and its radical curvature is bounded, then we have (1) the essential spectrum of the Laplacian is \([{1 \over 4} a^ 2,+ \infty)\), as \(\lim_{r \to \infty} \{\log V(r)-ar-b\}=0\), (2) the essential spectrum of the Laplacian is \([{1 \over 4} a^ 2,+ \infty)\), as \(\lim_{r \to \infty} \{\log (C-V(r)) + ar + b\} = 0\), where \(V(r)\) is the volume of the geodesic ball with center pole and radius \(r\); \(C\), \(a\) and \(b\) are positive constants.

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