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    Extremal g-invariant eigenvalues of the Laplacian of g-invariant metrics
    (2008-12-21) ;
    Dryden, Emily B
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    El Soufi, Ahmad
    The study of extremal properties of the spectrum often involves restricting the metrics under consideration. Motivated by the work of Abreu and Freitas in the case of the sphere S-2 endowed with S-1-invariant metrics, we consider the subsequence lambda(G)(k) of the spectrum of a Riemannian manifold M which corresponds to metrics and functions invariant under the action of a compact Lie group G. If. G has dimension at least 1, we show that the functional lambda(G)(k) admits no extremal metric under volume-preserving G-invariant deforma- tions. If, moreover, M has dimension at least three, then the functional lambda(G)(k) is unbounded when restricted to any conformal class of G-invariant metrics of fixed volume. As a special case of this, we can consider the standard 0(n)-action on S-n; however, if we also require the metric to be induced by an embedding of S-n in Rn+1, we get an optimal upper bound on lambda(G)(k).
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    Eigenvalues of the laplacian acting on p-forms and metric conformal deformations
    (2006) ;
    El Soufi, Ahmad
    Let (M, g) be a compact connected orientable Riemannian manifold of dimension n >= 4 and let lambda(k,p)(g) be the k-th positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian. Delta g,p = dd* + d* d acting on differential forms of degree p on M. We prove that the metric g can be conformally deformed to a metric g', having the same volume as g, with arbitrarily large lambda 1, p(g') for all p is an element of [2,n-2]. Note that for the other values of p, that is p = 0, 1, n-1 and n, one can deduce from the literature that, for all k > 0, the k-th eigenvalue lambda(k,p) is uniformly bounded on any conformal class of metrics of fixed volume on M. For p = 1, we show that, for any positive integer N, there exists a metric g(N) conformal to g such that, for all k
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    Extremal eigenvalues of the Laplacian in a conformal class of metrics: The 'conformal spectrum'
    (2003-12-21) ;
    El Soufi, Ahmad
    Let M be a compact connected manifold of dimension n endowed with a conformal class C of Riemannian metrics of volume one. For any integer k greater than or equal to 0, we consider the conformal invariant.c k( C) defined as the supremum of the k-th eigenvalue lambda(k)(g) of the Laplace-Beltrami operator Delta(g), where g runs over C. First, we give a sharp universal lower bound for lambda(k)(c)(C) extending to all k a result obtained by Friedlander and Nadirashvili for k = 1. Then, we show that the sequence {lambda(k)(c)(C)}, that we call 'conformal spectrum', is strictly increasing and satisfies, For Allk greater than or equal to 0, lambda(k+1)(c)(C)(n/2)-lambda(k)(c)(C)(n/2) greater than or equal to n(n/2) omega(n), where omega(n) is the volume of the n-dimensional standard sphere. When M is an orientable surface of genus gamma, we also consider the supremum zeta(k)(top) (gamma) of lambda(k)(g) over the set of all the area one Riemannian metrics on M, and study the behavior of lambda(k)(top)(gamma) in terms of gamma.