A Dynamical Approach to the Berezin-Li-Yau Inequality
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 . For convex domains we show that is monotone non-decreasing along the flow. The key input is a geometric correlation inequality between the boundary spectral density and the mean curvature , established in all dimensions: in via a near-disk Fourier analysis, and in 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}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Journal of Functional Analysis