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Absence of positive Eigenvalues for a class of subelliptic operators

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Garofalo, N., Shen, Z. Absence of positive Eigenvalues for a class of subelliptic operators. Math. Ann. 304, 701–715 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01446315

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