%0 Journal Article %T The excitation spectrum for weakly interacting bosons in a trap %A Philip Grech %A Robert Seiringer %J Mathematics %D 2012 %I arXiv %R 10.1007/s00220-013-1736-8 %X We investigate the low-energy excitation spectrum of a Bose gas confined in a trap, with weak long-range repulsive interactions. In particular, we prove that the spectrum can be described in terms of the eigenvalues of an effective one-particle operator, as predicted by the Bogoliubov approximation. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5259v1