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We develop geometric analysis on weighted Riemannian manifolds under lower $0$-weighted Ricci curvature bounds. Under such curvature bounds, we prove a first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue estimate of Wang-Xia type on compact weighted…

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We prove some Liouville type theorems on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature and strictly convex boundary. This gives a nonlinear generalization in low dimension of the recent sharp lower bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Qianqiao Guo , Fengbo Hang , Xiaodong Wang

By using an explicit Bellman function, we prove a bilinear embedding theorem for the Laplacian associated with a weighted Riemannian manifold $(M,\mu_\phi)$ having the Bakry-Emery curvature bounded from below. The embedding, acting on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-18 Andrea Carbonaro , Oliver Dragičević

In this article we prove upper bounds for the Laplace eigenvalues $\lambda_k$ below the essential spectrum for strictly negatively curved Cartan-Hadamard manifolds. Our bound is given in terms of $k^2$ and specific geometric data of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Matthias Keller , Shiping Liu , Norbert Peyerimhoff

In this paper, we establish some comparison theorems for the total quotient curvature. Specifically, we examine the behavior of the functional with respect to the total quotient curvature and prove that the background Einstein metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Jiaqi Chen , Yi Fang , Jingyang Zhong

We prove sharp bounds on eigenvalues of the Laplacian that complement the Faber--Krahn and Luttinger inequalities. In particular, we prove that the ball maximizes the first eigenvalue and minimizes the spectral zeta function and heat trace.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Richard Laugesen , Bartlomiej Siudeja

Following Escobar [Esc97] and Jammes [Jam15], we introduce two types of isoperimetric constants and give lower bound estimates for the first nontrivial eigenvalues of Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators on finite graphs with boundary…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Bobo Hua , Yan Huang , Zuoqin Wang

We revisit the sharp Sobolev inequalities involving boundary terms on Riemannian manifolds with boundaries proved by \emph{[Y.Y. Li and M. Zhu, Geom. Funct. Anal. \textbf{8} (1998), 59--87.]} and explore the role of the mean curvature.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Zhongwei Tang , Jingang Xiong , Ning Zhou

On H-type sub-Riemannian manifolds we establish sub-Hessian and sub-Laplacian comparison theorems which are uniform for a family of approximating Riemannian metrics converging to the sub-Riemannian one. We also prove a sharp sub-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Fabrice Baudoin , Erlend Grong , Luca Rizzi , Sylvie Vega-Molino

Liu, M\"unch, and Peyerimhoff introduced the notion of Bakry-\'Emery curvature for connection graphs as a means to derive Buser-type bounds on the eigenvalues of connection Laplacians. In this work, we present a reformulation of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Chunyang Hu , Shiping Liu

We consider the magnetic Steklov eigenvalue problem on compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary for generic magnetic potentials and establish various results concerning the spectrum. We provide equivalent characterizations of magnetic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Tirumala Chakradhar , Katie Gittins , Georges Habib , Norbert Peyerimhoff

For smooth bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}$, we prove upper and lower $L^2$ bounds on the boundary data of Neumann eigenfunctions, and prove quasi-orthogonality of this boundary data in a spectral window. The bounds are tight in the sense…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Alex Barnett , Andrew Hassell , Melissa Tacy

We derive sharp estimates on modulus of continuity for solutions of the heat equation on a compact Riemannian manifold with a Ricci curvature bound, in terms of initial oscillation and elapsed time. As an application, we give an easy proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ben Andrews , Julie Clutterbuck

In this paper, we give a sharp lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the basic Laplacian acting on basic $1$-forms defined on a compact manifold whose boundary is endowed with a Riemannian flow. The limiting case gives rise to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Fida El Chami , Georges Habib , Ola Makhoul , Roger Nakad

In this paper, we study the first eigenvalue of the Laplace--Beltrami operator on the Lawson minimal surfaces $\xi_{m,k}$ embedded in the unit three-sphere $\mathbb{S}^3$. Motivated by Yau's conjecture on the first eigenvalue of closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Julieth Saavedra , A. J. Castrillón Vásquez

Using Rauch's comparison theorem, we prove several monotonicity inequalities for Riemannian submanifolds. Our main result is a general Li-Yau inequality which is applicable in any Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature is bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Christian Scharrer

This paper investigates the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the $p$-Laplacian in Riemannian manifolds. Firstly, we establish a lower bound for this eigenvalue under the condition that the domain includes a specific function which fulfills…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xiaoshang Jin

For the principal eigenvalue with bilateral Dirichlet boundary condition, the so-called basic estimates were originally obtained by capacitary method. The Neumann case (i.e., the ergodic case) is even harder, and was deduced from the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-25 Mu-Fa Chen

In analogy with classical results in Riemannian geometry, we establish estimates for the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-de Rham operator on complete balanced Hermitian manifolds in terms of either the holomorphic Ricci curvature or the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Liangdi Zhang

We prove various estimates for the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded domain in two dimensions. When the magnetic field is constant, we give lower and upper bounds in terms of geometric quantities of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Tomas Ekholm , Hynek Kovarik , Fabian Portmann