Laplacians on Metric Graphs: Eigenvalues, Resolvents and Semigroups
Mathematical Physics
2007-05-23 v1 math.MP
Spectral Theory
Abstract
The main objective of the present work is to study the negative spectrum of (differential) Laplace operators on metric graphs as well as their resolvents and associated heat semigroups. We prove an upper bound on the number of negative eigenvalues and a lower bound on the spectrum of Laplace operators. Also we provide a sufficient condition for the associated heat semigroup to be positivity preserving.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/0601041,
title = {Laplacians on Metric Graphs: Eigenvalues, Resolvents and Semigroups},
author = {Vadim Kostrykin and Robert Schrader},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0601041},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To be published in the Proceedings of the Conference on Quantum Graphs and Their Applications held in Snowbird, Utah, June 18 -- June 24, 2005