Bounds on Accumulation Rates of Eigenvalues on Manifolds with Degenerating Metrics

Abstract

We consider a family of manifolds with a class of degenerating warped product metrics $g_\epsilon=\rho(\epsilon,t)^{2a}dt^2 +\rho(\epsilon,t)^{2b}ds_M^2$, with $M$ compact, $\rho$ homogeneous degree one, $a \le -1$ and $b > 0$. We study the Laplace operator acting on $L^{2}$ differential $p$-forms and give sharp accumulation rates for eigenvalues near the bottom of the essential spectrum of the limit manifold with metric $g_{0}$.