Lowest eigenvalues and formally self-adjoint fourth order elliptic differential operators
Let $(M,g)$ be a closed, smooth, Riemannian manifold of dimension $m \geq 1$. Let $η$ be a smooth $(0,1)$-tensor field on $M$. The divergence of $η$ is defined as $\text{div}_g(η):=g^{ij}(\nabla η)_{ij}$. Now let $Δ_g$ be a differential operator on $M$ that is given on functions by $Δ_g u = \text{div}_g \nabla u$. We will call $Δ_g$...