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The fundamental group and the spectrum of the laplacian

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Partially supported by NSF Grant #MCS 7802679.

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Brooks, R. The fundamental group and the spectrum of the laplacian. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 56, 581–598 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566228

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