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Eigenvalue bounds of the Robin Laplacian with magnetic field

Differential Geometry 2018-01-12 v2

Abstract

On a compact Riemannian manifold MM with boundary, we give an estimate for the eigenvalues (λ_k(τ,α))_k(\lambda\_k(\tau,\alpha))\_k of the magnetic Laplacian with the Robin boundary conditions. Here, τ\tau is a positive number that defines the Robin condition and α\alpha is a real differential 1-form on MM that represents the magnetic field. We express these estimates in terms of the mean curvature of the boundary, the parameter τ\tau and a lower bound of the Ricci curvature of MM (see Theorem \ref{estimate1} and Corollary \ref{corestimate}). The main technique is to use the Bochner formula established in \cite{ELMP} for the magnetic Laplacian and to integrate it over MM (see Theorem \ref{bochnermagnetic1}). In the last part, we compare the eigenvalues λ_k(τ,α)\lambda\_k(\tau,\alpha) with the first eigenvalue λ_1(τ)=λ_1(τ,0)\lambda\_1(\tau)=\lambda\_1(\tau,0) (i.e. without magnetic field) and the Neumann eigenvalues λ_k(0,α)\lambda\_k(0,\alpha) (see Theorem \ref{thm:comp}) using the min-max principle.

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@article{arxiv.1707.07939,
  title  = {Eigenvalue bounds of the Robin Laplacian with magnetic field},
  author = {Georges Habib and Ayman Kachmar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07939},
  year   = {2018}
}