Zero and negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian

DOI10.4171/JST/142MaRDI QIDQ516573zbMATHFDO

Authors Rod Gover, Asma Hassannezhad, Dmitry Jakobson, Michael Levitin

Publication date 14 March 2017

Published in Journal of Spectral Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08524

zbMATH Keywords

conformal geometrynegative eigenvaluesspectral geometryconformal Laplacianeigenvalue 0generic metricsmanifolds of metricspre-compactness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Perturbations of PDEs on manifolds; asymptotics (58J37) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: We show that zero is not an eigenvalue of the conformal Laplacian for generic Riemannian metrics. We also discuss non-compactness for sequences of metrics with growing number of negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian.

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