A Hardy inequality on Riemannian manifolds and classification of discrete Dirichlet spectra

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Authors: Nils Rautenberg 

Publication date: 20 January 2014

Abstract: We prove a Hardy inequality for uniformly elliptic operators subject to Dirichlet or mixed boundary conditions on domains $Omega$ with piecewiese smooth boundary in arbitrary Riemannian Manifolds (M, g). Employing an approach of E.B. Davies for the euclidean case, we show that it implies a sufficient geometric criterion under which the Laplace- Beltrami operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions $Delt{a}^D$ has purely discrete spectrum on $Omega$. We proceed to classify all non-compact $Omega$ with discrete spectrum up to a boundary regularity condition and show that these include for example polygons with ideal vertices in manifolds of negative curvature. This a new result for non-constant curvature.

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