Examples of simply-connected Liouville manifolds with positive spectrum

Differential Geometry and its Application

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-50

  Benjamin, Itai ^a   Jianguo, Cao ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded geometry; Bounded harmonic functions; Brownian motion; Liouville manifolds; Positive spectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030099453     PISSN: 09262245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0926-2245(96)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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