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Remark about the spectrum of the  -form Laplacian under a collapse with curvature bounded below
Author(s):
John
Lott
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
132
(2004),
911-918.
MSC (2000):
Primary 58G25;
Secondary 53C23
Posted:
September 18, 2003
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Abstract:
We give a lower bound on the number of small positive eigenvalues of the  -form Laplacian in a certain type of collapse with curvature bounded below.
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Additional Information:
John
Lott
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1109
Email:
lott@umich.edu
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07121-1
PII:
S 0002-9939(03)07121-1
Received by editor(s):
September 19, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
November 3, 2002
Posted:
September 18, 2003
Additional Notes:
Research supported by NSF grant DMS-0072154
Communicated by:
Jozef Dodziuk
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