June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
364 pages
13h 56m
English
To understand spectral analysis, we must first define the Laplacian on a compact manifold, M, which has countably many eigenfunctions:

This is for
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Due to the symmetry property, the eigenfunctions will be both real and orthonormal, which gives us the following:

Here, the eigenvalues are non-negative, that is,
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