Abstract: | We explicitely compute the absolutely continuous spectrum of the Laplace–Beltrami operator for p ‐forms for the class of warped product metrics dσ 2 = y 2a dy 2 + y 2b dθ 2equation/tex2gif-inf-1.gif, where y is a boundary defining function on the unit ball B (0, 1) in ?N . (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) |