ESSENTIAL SPECTRUM OF THE LICHNEROWICZ LAPLACIAN ON TENSORS ON ASYMPTOTICALLY

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ESSENTIAL SPECTRUM OF THE LICHNEROWICZ LAPLACIAN ON 2-TENSORS ON ASYMPTOTICALLY HYPERBOLIC MANIFOLDS ERWANN DELAY Abstract. On an n-dimensional asymptotically hyperbolic man- ifold with n > 2, we show that the essential spectrum of the Lich- nerowicz Laplacian acting on trace free symmetric covariant two tensors is the ray [(n ? 1)(n ? 9)/4,+∞[. For the particular case of the hyperbolic space, this is the spectrum. Keywords : Asymptotically hyperbolic manifold, Lichnerowicz Lapla- cian, symmetric 2-tensors, essential spectrum, asymptotic behavior. 2000 MSC : 35P15, 58J50, 47A53. 1. Introduction The study of Laplacians acting on symmetric two tensor like the Lichnerowicz Laplacian ∆L is very important to the understanding of some Riemannian geometric problems [Be] and in general Relativity. One of those problem is to find a metric with prescribed Ricci curvature [DT], and the infinitesimal version of that problem is to invert the Lichnerowicz Laplacian on symmetric two tensor. In [D], I showed that the Ricci curvature can be arbitrarily prescribed in the neighborhood of the hyperbolic metric on the real hyperbolic space when the dimension is strictly larger than 9. The result given here shows in particular that 0 is in the spectrum for lower dimension, hence there certainly exist some obstructions to solve the Ricci equation.

• compact manifold


• codazzi tensor


• lichnerowicz laplacian


• riemannian metric


• formal adjoint


• manifold denoted


• asymptotically hyperbolic


• l2 self-adjoint


• free symmetric covariant

Sujets

• Closed manifold
• Laplace operators in differential geometry
• Riemannian manifold
• Differential operator

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• Publié par: pefav
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English

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