Zero and negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian

DOI10.4171/JST/142zbMATH Open1362.58017arXiv1511.08524MaRDI QIDQ516573FDOQ516573

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)

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.

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

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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)

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• Some decompositions of the space of symmetric tensors on a Riemannian manifolds
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• Zeros of conformal fields in any metric signature
• Conformal invariants from nodal sets. II: Manifolds with boundary

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