Existence of the spectral gap for elliptic operators

Abstract

Let $M$ be a connected, noncompact, complete Riemannian manifold, consider the operator $L=\DD +\nn V$ for some $V\in C^2(M)$ with $\exp [V]$ integrable w.r.t. the Riemannian volume element. This paper studies the existence of the spectral gap of $L$. As a consequence of the main result, let $\rr$ be the distance function from a point $o$, then the spectral gap exists provided $\lim_{\rr\to\infty}\sup L\rr<0$ while the spectral gap does not exist if $o$ is a pole and $\lim_{\rr\to\infty}\inf L\rr\ge 0.$ Moreover, the elliptic operators on ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ are also studied.

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