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Eigenvalue Estimates on Bakry-Emery Manifolds

Spectral Theory 2020-12-14 v1 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry

Abstract

We demonstrate lower bounds for the eigenvalues of compact Bakry-Emery manifolds with and without boundary. The lower bounds for the first eigenvalue rely on a generalised maximum principle which allows gradient estimates in the Riemannian setting to be directly applied to the Bakry-Emery setting. Lower bounds for all eigenvalues are demonstrated using heat kernel estimates and a suitable Sobolev inequality.

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@article{arxiv.2012.06489,
  title  = {Eigenvalue Estimates on Bakry-Emery Manifolds},
  author = {Nelia Charalambous and Zhiqin Lu and Julie Rowlett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.06489},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

This is a preliminary version of the article by the same name that was subsequently revised and published in the Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics book series (PROMS, volume 119)

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