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Spectral Theory on Manifolds

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This chapter gives a brief introduction to the spectral theory of graphs. The primary focus is on quantum graphs consisting of the Laplacian operator acting on a metric graph.

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Borthwick, D. (2020). Spectral Theory on Manifolds. In: Spectral Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38002-1_9

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