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Small eigenvalues of surfaces

Differential Geometry 2017-03-08 v1

Abstract

We show that the Laplacian of a Riemannian metric on a closed surface S with Euler characteristic \chi(S) < 0 has at most -\chi(S) small eigenvalues.

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@article{arxiv.1406.5836,
  title  = {Small eigenvalues of surfaces},
  author = {Werner Ballmann and Henrik Matthiesen and Sugata Mondal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5836},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages

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