On the spectrum of towers

Donnelly, Harold

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1983-0681842-4

On the spectrum of towers
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Abstract:

A new relation is derived between the spectrum of a noncompact Riemannian manifold $M$ and certain sequences of compact quotients of $M$.

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