Log-Concavity of the First Eigenfunction on Horoconvex Domains in the Hyperbolic Plane
Differential Geometry
2026-07-29 v1 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
Let be a bounded smooth horoconvex domain and let be its first Dirichlet eigenfunction. We prove that throughout , with no restriction on the diameter or the first eigenvalue. The proof is by contradiction. A degenerate Hessian would yield a shifted translation Killing derivative with a singular interior zero. Then the boundary-zero theorem of Grossi and Provenzano shows that the shifted Killing derivative has exactly two zeros on the boundary. A nodal-domain argument on the surface rules this out.
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@article{arxiv.2607.27120,
title = {Log-Concavity of the First Eigenfunction on Horoconvex Domains in the Hyperbolic Plane},
author = {Xianzhe Dai and John M. Ennis and Xuan Hien Nguyen and Guofang Wei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.27120},
year = {2026}
}
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