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Laplace-Beltrami Operator


A self-adjoint elliptic differential operator defined somewhat technically as

 Delta=ddelta+deltad,

where d is the exterior derivative and d and delta are adjoint to each other with respect to the inner product.


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References

Iyanaga, S. and Kawada, Y. (Eds.). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 628, 1980.

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Laplace-Beltrami Operator

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Laplace-Beltrami Operator." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Laplace-BeltramiOperator.html

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