Spectral inequalities for weighted $p$-Laplacians via Talenti symmetrization
math.APmath.SP2026-05v1license
Abstract
We consider the weighted -Laplacian associated with a measure that is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure on an open connected subset . We prove that Talenti's weighted P\'olya--Szeg\H{o} inequality -- originally established for Lipschitz functions on -- extends to Sobolev functions with zero boundary trace on arbitrary Borel subsets . This yields Faber--Krahn-type inequalities for the first -eigenvalue of the weighted Dirichlet -Laplacian. We present several examples fitting this abstract framework, including classical Euclidean and Gaussian cases alongside new results for homogeneous weights in convex cones, anisotropic Gaussians, and log-concave Gaussian perturbations.
Comments: 19 pages
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.29721,
title = {Spectral inequalities for weighted $p$-Laplacians via Talenti symmetrization},
author = {Giulio Bartoli and Giorgio Saracco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29721},
year = {2026}
}