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The spectrum of the continuous Laplacian on a graph. (English) Zbl 0892.47001

The authors study the spectrum of the continuous Laplacian \(\Delta\) on a countable connected locally finite graph \(\Gamma\) without self-loops. They assume the edges of the graph have suitable positive conductances and are identified with copies of line segments \([0,1]\). They also assume the condition that the sum of the weighted normal exterior derivatives is \(0\) at every node. This is the Kirchhoff-type condition. Let \(P\) be the transition operator on the vertex set. The authors study the relationship between the \(L^2\) spectrum of the operator \(\Delta\) and the \(\ell^2\) spectrum of the discrete Laplacian \(I-P\).
Reviewer: P.Gilkey (Eugene)

MSC:

47A10 Spectrum, resolvent
35P05 General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs
35J10 Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation

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