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An inequality for the normal derivative of the Lane-Emden ground state

Analysis of PDEs 2022-07-29 v2 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We consider Lane-Emden ground states with polytropic index 0q110\leq q-1\leq 1, that is, minimizers of the Dirichlet integral among LqL^q-normalized functions. Our main result is a sharp lower bound on the L2L^2-norm of the normal derivative in terms of the energy, which implies a corresponding isoperimetric inequality. Our bound holds for arbitrary bounded open Lipschitz sets ΩRd\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d, without assuming convexity.

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@article{arxiv.2201.09605,
  title  = {An inequality for the normal derivative of the Lane-Emden ground state},
  author = {Rupert L. Frank and Simon Larson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.09605},
  year   = {2022}
}