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Finiteness of Negative Spectra of Elliptic Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Minoru Murata*
Affiliation:
Department of mathematics, Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityFukazawa, Setagaya-ku Tokyo, 158, Japan
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Abstract

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Finiteness criteria are established for the negative spectra of higher order elliptic operators on Rn. The results are obtained by establishing isomorphism theorems for elliptic operators and applying the abstract finiteness criterion of Konno-Kuroda.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1985

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