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Exit Time Moments and Eigenvalue Estimates

Spectral Theory 2017-06-07 v2

Abstract

We study estimates involving the principal Dirichlet eigenvalue associated to a smoothly bounded domain in a complete Riemannian manifold and L1-norms of exit time moments of Brownian motion. Our results generalize a classical inequality of Polya.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.08722,
  title  = {Exit Time Moments and Eigenvalue Estimates},
  author = {Emily B. Dryden and Jeffrey J. Langford and Patrick McDonald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08722},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages, added appendix on variational quotients, added lower bounds, improved exposition

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