Eigenvalues of the Laplacian acting on $p$-forms and metric conformal deformations

dc.creatorColbois, Bruno
dc.creatorSoufi, Ahmad El
dc.date2004-09-15
dc.date2004-09-18
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dc.descriptionLet $(M,g)$ be a compact connected orientable Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\ge4$ and let $λ_{k,p} (g)$ be the $k$-th positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian $Δ_{g,p}=dd^*+d^*d$ acting on differential forms of degree $p$ on $M$. We prove that the metric $g$ can be conformally deformed to a metric $g'$, having the same volume as $g$, with arbitrarily large $λ_{1,p} (g')$ for all $p\in[2,n-2]$. Note that for the other values of $p$, that is $p=0, 1, n-1$ and $n$, one can deduce from the literature that, $\forall k >0$, the $k$-th eigenvalue $λ_{k,p}$ is uniformly bounded on any conformal class of metrics of fixed volume on $M$. For $p=1$, we show that, for any positive integer $N$, there exists a metric $g_N$ conformal to $g$ such that, $\forall k\le N$, $λ_{k,1} (g_N) =λ_{k,0} (g_N) $, that is, the first $N$ eigenforms of $Δ_{g_N,1}$ are all exact forms.
dc.descriptionredaction 2003
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409242
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409242
dc.identifierProceedings of the American Mathematical Society 134 (3) (2006) 715-721
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/96853
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subjectSpectral Theory
dc.subject35P15, 58J50, 53C20
dc.titleEigenvalues of the Laplacian acting on $p$-forms and metric conformal deformations
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