Abstract.We estimate the distribution of the eigenvalues of the discrete Laplacian on a bounded set in/~". The proof is based on a variational technique similar to that used by Weyl for the Laplaeian. As an application of our estimates we prove stability in the maximum norm for the Crank-Nicolson method for the heat equation on a bounded set.
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