Semicontinuity of eigenvalues under intrinsic flat convergence

DOI10.1007/S00526-015-0842-1zbMATH Open1338.49090arXiv1401.5017OpenAlexW2083964489MaRDI QIDQ745567FDOQ745567

Authors: Jacobus W. Portegies 

Publication date: 14 October 2015

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use the theory of rectifiable metric spaces to define a Dirichlet energy of Lipschitz functions defined on the support of integral currents. This energy is obtained by integration of the square of the norm of the tangential derivative, or equivalently of the approximate local dilatation, of the Lipschitz functions. We define min-max values based on the normalized energy and show that when integral current spaces converge in the intrinsic flat sense without loss of volume, the min-max values of the limit space are larger than or equal to the upper limit of the min-max values of the currents in the sequence. In particular, the infimum of the normalized energy is semicontinuous. On spaces that are infinitesimally Hilbertian, we can define a linear Laplace operator. We can show that semicontinuity under intrinsic flat convergence holds for eigenvalues below the essential spectrum, if the total volume of the spaces converges as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5017

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesLaplace operatormetric spacesDirichlet energyintrinsic flat convergenceintegral currentsflat distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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