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A Dynamical Approach to the Berezin-Li-Yau Inequality

Differential Geometry 2026-05-26 v4 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We develop a dynamical method for proving the sharp Berezin-Li-Yau inequality. The approach is based on the volume-preserving mean curvature flow and a new monotonicity principle for the Riesz mean RΛ(Ωt)R_\Lambda(\Omega_t). For convex domains we show that RΛR_\Lambda is monotone non-decreasing along the flow. The key input is a geometric correlation inequality between the boundary spectral density QΛQ_\Lambda and the mean curvature HH, established in all dimensions: in d=2d=2 via a near-disk Fourier analysis, and in d3d\ge 3 via the boundary Weyl expansion together with a local spectral rigidity argument near the ball, with a first-zero exclusion principle closing the global step. Since the flow converges smoothly to the ball, the monotonicity implies the sharp Berezin-Li-Yau bound for every smooth convex domain. As an application, we obtain a sharp dynamical Ces\`aro-P\'olya inequality for eigenvalue averages.

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@article{arxiv.2512.08966,
  title  = {A Dynamical Approach to the Berezin-Li-Yau Inequality},
  author = {Anton Alexa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08966},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted for publication in Journal of Functional Analysis