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The essential spectrum of the Laplacian

Differential Geometry 2013-05-29 v2 Analysis of PDEs Spectral Theory

Abstract

In this article we prove a generalization of Weyl's criterion for the essential spectrum of a self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space. We then apply this criterion to the Laplacian on functions over open manifolds and get new results for its essential spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.1211.3225,
  title  = {The essential spectrum of the Laplacian},
  author = {Nelia Charalambous and Zhiqin Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.3225},
  year   = {2013}
}