SPECTRUM OF AN EINSTEIN-LIKE MANIFOLD

Sharief Deshmukh (Saudi Arabia)

Received March 31, 2008; Revised April 20, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: Ricci curvature, eigenvalues, eigenfunctions, Laplacian operator.