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Drifted Laplace operators on homogeneous trees

Author(s): Enrico Casadio Tarabusi; Alessandro Figà-Talamanca
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 2165-2175.
MSC (2000): Primary 43A85; Secondary 05C05
Posted: February 8, 2007
MathSciNet review: 2299494
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Abstract: We determine the spectrum and the resolvent operator of a drifted Laplace operator on a homogeneous tree, obtaining qualitatively different results according to the sign of the drift in the direction of a boundary point.


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Additional Information:

Enrico Casadio Tarabusi
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica ``G. Castelnuovo'', Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
Email: casadio@mat.uniroma1.it

Alessandro Figà-Talamanca
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica ``G. Castelnuovo'', Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
Email: sandroft@mat.uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08811-9
PII: S 0002-9939(07)08811-9
Keywords: Homogeneous trees, Laplace operator, drifts, spectrum, resolvent operator
Received by editor(s): March 21, 2006
Posted: February 8, 2007
Communicated by: Michael T. Lacey
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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