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Best constants in Poincar\'e inequalities for convex domains

Analysis of PDEs 2011-10-14 v1

Abstract

We prove a Payne-Weinberger type inequality for the pp-Laplacian Neumann eigenvalues (p2p\ge 2). The inequality provides the sharp upper bound on convex domains, in terms of the diameter alone, of the best constants in Poincar\'e inequality. The key point is the implementation of a refinement of the classical P\'olya-Szeg\"o inequality for the symmetric decreasing rearrangement which yields an optimal weighted Wirtinger inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1110.2960,
  title  = {Best constants in Poincar\'e inequalities for convex domains},
  author = {L. Esposito and C. Nitsch and C. Trombetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.2960},
  year   = {2011}
}