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The spectrum of the Laplacian on forms over flat manifolds

Differential Geometry 2017-10-26 v1 Analysis of PDEs Spectral Theory

Abstract

In this article we prove that the spectrum of the Laplacian on kk-forms over a noncompact flat manifold is always a connected closed interval of the nonnegative real line. The proof is based on a detailed decomposition of the structure of flat manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1710.09066,
  title  = {The spectrum of the Laplacian on forms over flat manifolds},
  author = {Nelia Charalambous and Zhiqin Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09066},
  year   = {2017}
}