Abstract
The spectrum of the Laplacian $\Delta$ for a simply connected complete negatively curved Riemannian manifold is studied. The Laplacian ${\Delta _0}$ of a simply connected constant curvature space ${M_0}$ is known up to unitary equivalence. Decay conditions are given, on the metric $g$ and curvature $K$ of $M$, which imply that the continuous part of ${\Delta _0}$ is unitarily equivalent to ${\Delta _0}$.

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