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The celebrated conjecture by Payne, P\'{o}lya and Weinberger (1956) states that for the fixed membrane problem, the ratio of the first two eigenvalues, $\lambda_2/\lambda_1$, is maximized by a disk. A more general dimensional version of…

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In this paper we study eigenvalues of the closed eigenvalue problem of the Witten-Laplacian on an $n$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. Estimates for eigenvalues are given. As applications, we give a sharp upper bound for the…

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Along the line of the Yang Conjecture, we give a new estimate on the lower bound of the first non-zero eigenvalue of a closed Riemannian manifold with negative lower bound of Ricci curvature in terms of the in-diameter and the lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun Ling

We prove lower bound for the first closed or Neumann nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a compact quaternion-K\"ahler manifold in terms of dimension, diameter, and scalar curvature lower bound. It is derived as large time implication of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. In this short note we prove that under certain positive curvature assumptions on the manifold and its boundary the Steklov eigenvalues of the manifold are controlled by the Laplace…

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We consider the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1(\Omega,\sigma)$ of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions on a compact Riemannian manifold $\Omega$ with smooth boundary, $\sigma\in\bf R$ being the Robin boundary parameter. When $\sigma>0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Alessandro Savo

In this note, we investigate upper bounds of the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian of a bounded domain (with smooth boundary) in a given complete (not compact a priori) Riemannian manifold with Ricci bounded below . For this, we…

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We study the problem of maximizing the $k$-th eigenvalue functional over the class of absolutely continuous measures on a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $m\geq 3$. For dimensions $3 \leq m \leq 6$, we generalize the work of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Denis Vinokurov

Let $M$ be an $m$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. We obtain the upper bound of the harmonic mean of the first $m$ nonzero Neumann eigenvalues and Steklov eigenvalues involving the conformal volume and relative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Hang Chen

We study the eigenvalue problem for the $p$-Laplacian on K\"ahler manifolds. Our first result is a lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian on compact K\"ahler manifolds in terms of dimension, diameter, and lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Kui Wang , Shaoheng Zhang

For a Riemannian closed spin manifold and under some topological assumption (non-zero $\hat{A}$-genus or enlargeability in the sense of Gromov-Lawson), we give an optimal upper bound for the infimum of the scalar curvature in terms of the…

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In this paper, we investigate complete Riemannian manifolds satisfying the lower weighted Ricci curvature bound $\mathrm{Ric}_{N} \geq K$ with $K>0$ for the negative effective dimension $N<0$. We analyze two $1$-dimensional examples of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Cong Hung Mai

The goal of the paper is to sharpen and generalise bounds involving the Cheeger's isoperimetric constant $h$ and the first eigenvalue $\lambda_{1}$ of the Laplacian. A celebrated lower bound of $\lambda_{1}$ in terms of $h$,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Nicolò De Ponti , Andrea Mondino

Let $L=\Delta-\nabla\varphi\cdot\nabla$ be a symmetric diffusion operator with an invariant measure $d\mu=e^{-\varphi}dx$ on a complete Riemannian manifold. In this paper we prove Li-Yau gradient estimates for weighted elliptic equations on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-23 Jia-Yong Wu

Let $\Sigma$ be a closed, embedded, oriented hypersurface in a closed oriented Riemannian manifold $N$. Under a lower bound on the Ricci curvature and an upper bound on the sectional curvature of $N$, we establish a lower bound for the…

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Let $M^n$ be an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary $\partial M$. Assume that Ricci curvature is bounded from below by $(n-1)k$, for $k\in \RR$, we give a sharp estimate of the upper bound of $\rho(x)=\dis(x, \partial M)$, in…

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New lower bounds of the first nonzero eigenvalue of the weighted $p$-Laplacian are established on compact smooth metric measure spaces with or without boundaries. Under the assumption of positive lower bound for the $m$-Bakry--\'{E}mery…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Yuzhao Wang , Huaiqian Li

We study the biharmonic Steklov eigenvalue problem on a compact Riemannian manifold $\Omega$ with smooth boundary. We give a computable, sharp lower bound of the first eigenvalue of this problem, which depends only on the dimension, a lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-02 Simon Raulot , Alessandro Savo

Let $M$ be a closed hypersurface in a noncompact rank-1 symmetric space $(\bar{\mathbb{M}}, ds^2)$ with $-4 \leq K_{\bar{\mathbb{M}}} \leq -1,$ or in a complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold $\mathbb{M}$ such that $0 \leq…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Binoy , G. Santhanam

In this paper, we investigate the Dirichlet problem of Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds. By constructing new trial functions, we obtain a sharp upper bound of the gap of the consecutive eigenvalues in the sense of the order, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Lingzhong Zeng