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Zero and negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian

Differential Geometry 2016-04-28 v2 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We show that zero is not an eigenvalue of the conformal Laplacian for generic Riemannian metrics. We also discuss non-compactness for sequences of metrics with growing number of negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1511.08524,
  title  = {Zero and negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian},
  author = {A. Rod Gover and Asma Hassannezhad and Dmitry Jakobson and Michael Levitin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08524},
  year   = {2016}
}
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