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A weighted Reilly formula for differential forms and sharp Steklov eigenvalue estimates

Differential Geometry 2024-05-07 v2 Analysis of PDEs Spectral Theory

Abstract

First we establish a weighted Reilly formula for differential forms on a smooth compact oriented Riemannian manifold with boundary. Then we give two applications of this formula when the manifold satisfies certain geometric conditions. One is a sharp lower bound for the first positive eigenvalue of the Steklov eigenvalue problem on differential forms investigated by Belishev and Sharafutdinov (2008) and Karpukhin (2019). The other one is a comparison result between the spectrum of this Steklov eigenvalue problem and the spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian on the boundary of the manifold. Besides, at the end we discuss an open problem for differential forms analogous to Escobar's conjecture (1999) for functions.

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@article{arxiv.2312.16780,
  title  = {A weighted Reilly formula for differential forms and sharp Steklov eigenvalue estimates},
  author = {Changwei Xiong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16780},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

24 pages, no figures. Any comments are very welcome! 2nd version with minor modification

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:03:20.775Z