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Gradient estimate of an eigenfunction on a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary

Spectral Theory 2009-05-21 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let e\l(x)e_\l(x) be an eigenfunction with respect to the Laplace-Beltrami operator ΔM\Delta_M on a compact Riemannian manifold MM without boundary: ΔMe\l=\l2e\l\Delta_M e_\l=\l^2 e_\l. We show the following gradient estimate of e\le_\l: for every \l1\l\geq 1, there holds \le\l/Ce\lC\le\l\l\|e_\l\|_\infty/C\leq \|\nabla e_\l\|_\infty\leq C{\l}\|e_\l\|_\infty, where CC is a positive constant depending only on MM.

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@article{arxiv.0905.1366,
  title  = {Gradient estimate of an eigenfunction on a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary},
  author = {Yiqian Shi and Bin Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1366},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages. The abstract is shortened to two sentences. The reference of the book by Yu Safarov and D. Vassiliev was added. An alternative proof of the gradient estimate for the unit band spectral projection operator is added in Section 4. The layout is changed

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