A sharp Gaussian harmonic-mean inequality for Neumann eigenvalues of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator
Abstract
Let and let be a connected Lipschitz domain, possibly unbounded, symmetric with respect to the origin, and such that . We assume that the Gaussian Sobolev embedding is compact; a sufficient condition is the existence of a bounded Gaussian Sobolev extension operator from to . Denote by the Neumann eigenvalues of the positive Ornstein--Uhlenbeck operator in . We prove the sharp reciprocal-sum inequality where is the Euclidean ball centred at the origin and satisfying . Equality holds if and only if . The proof combines a coupled -dimensional Ritz argument with a Gaussian raywise rearrangement. The angular imbalance is encoded by a symmetric trace-free matrix, whose contribution is controlled by a finite-dimensional convexity inequality.
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@article{arxiv.2607.28328,
title = {A sharp Gaussian harmonic-mean inequality for Neumann eigenvalues of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator},
author = {Francesco Chiacchio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.28328},
year = {2026}
}