Zero and negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian

Rod Gover; Asma Hassannezhad; Dmitry Jakobson; Michael Levitin

doi:10.4171/JST/142

Zero and negative eigenvalues of the conformal Laplacian

Rod Gover, Asma Hassannezhad, Dmitry Jakobson, Michael Levitin

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	793-806
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Spectral Theory
Volume	6
Issue number	4
Early online date	9 Dec 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4171/JST/142
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

Spectral geometry
conformal geometry
conformal Laplacian
eigenvalue 0
negative eigenvalues
generic metrics
manifolds of metrics
pre-compactness

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