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Existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue on non-orientable surfaces

Differential Geometry 2019-09-09 v3 Analysis of PDEs Spectral Theory

Abstract

We prove the existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue normalized by area on closed, non-orientable surfaces assuming two spectral gap conditions. These spectral gap conditions are proved by the authors in \cite{MS3}.

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@article{arxiv.1703.01264,
  title  = {Existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue on non-orientable surfaces},
  author = {Henrik Matthiesen and Anna Siffert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01264},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

v3: change in title; 14 pages, contains only first part of the previous versions now. All comments very welcome

R2 v1 2026-06-22T18:35:02.726Z