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    Extremal g-invariant eigenvalues of the Laplacian of g-invariant metrics
    (2008-12-21) ;
    Dryden, Emily B
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    El Soufi, Ahmad
    The study of extremal properties of the spectrum often involves restricting the metrics under consideration. Motivated by the work of Abreu and Freitas in the case of the sphere S-2 endowed with S-1-invariant metrics, we consider the subsequence lambda(G)(k) of the spectrum of a Riemannian manifold M which corresponds to metrics and functions invariant under the action of a compact Lie group G. If. G has dimension at least 1, we show that the functional lambda(G)(k) admits no extremal metric under volume-preserving G-invariant deforma- tions. If, moreover, M has dimension at least three, then the functional lambda(G)(k) is unbounded when restricted to any conformal class of G-invariant metrics of fixed volume. As a special case of this, we can consider the standard 0(n)-action on S-n; however, if we also require the metric to be induced by an embedding of S-n in Rn+1, we get an optimal upper bound on lambda(G)(k).