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Motivated by an example of Shih, we compute the fundamental gap of a family of convex domains in the hyperbolic plane $\mathbb H^2$, showing that for some of them $\lambda_2 - \lambda_1 < \frac{3\pi^2}{D^2}$, where $D$ is the diameter of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Theodora Bourni , Julie Clutterbuck , Xuan Hien Nguyen , Alina Stancu , Guofang Wei , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

On complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature, Li-Schoen proved the uniform Poincare inequality for any ge odesic ball. In this note, we obtain the sharp lower bound of the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Haibin Wang , Guoyi Xu , Jie Zhou

We investigate the Steklov eigenvalue problem in an exterior Euclidean domain. First, we present several formulations of this problem and establish the equivalences between them. Next, we examine various properties of the exterior Steklov…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Lukas Bundrock , Alexandre Girouard , Denis S. Grebenkov , Michael Levitin , Iosif Polterovich

We consider a Jordan domain diffeomorphic to a closed two-dimensional disk with a smooth boundary. Assuming the Gauss curvature of the domain has a negative lower bound, the Gauss-Bonnet formula provides an upper bound for the total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Xiaokai He , Xiaoning Wu , Naqing Xie

Given an eigenvalue $\lambda$ of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on $n-$spheres or $-$hemispheres, with multiplicity $m$ such that $\lambda=\lambda_{k}=\dots = \lambda_{k+m-1}$, we characterise the lowest and highest orders in the set…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Pedro Freitas , Jing Mao , Isabel Salavessa

We investigate isoperimetric inequalities for Lipschitz 2-spheres in CAT(0) spaces, proving bounds on the volume of efficient null-homotopies. In one dimension lower, it is known that a quadratic inequality with a constant smaller than…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Cornelia Druţu , Urs Lang , Panos Papasoglu , Stephan Stadler

We give a new lower bound for the first gap $\lambda_2 - \lambda_1$ of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Schr{\"o}dinger operator on a bounded convex domain $\Omega$ in R$^n$ or S$^n$ and greatly sharpens the previous estimates. The new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun Ling

Our main result is that if a generic convex domain in $\R^n$ collapses to a domain in $\R^{n-1}$, then the difference between the first two Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Euclidean Laplacian, known as the fundamental gap, diverges. The…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Zhiqin Lu , Julie Rowlett

In this paper we find a tight estimate for Gromov's waist of the balls in spaces of constant curvature, deduce the estimates for the balls in Riemannian manifolds with upper bounds on the curvature ($\mathrm{CAT}(\kappa)$-spaces), and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Arseniy Akopyan , Roman Karasev

We prove a tubular neighborhood theorem for an embedded complex geodesic surface in a complex hyperbolic 2-manifold where the width of the tube depends only on the Euler characteristic of the embedded surface. We give an explicit estimate…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Ara Basmajian , Youngju Kim

In this note, we prove an optimal upper bound for the first Dirac eigenvalue of some hypersurfaces in Euclidean space by combining a positive mass theorem and the construction of quasi-spherical metrics. As a direct consequence of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Simon Raulot

We prove that hypersurfaces of $\R^{n+1}$ which are almost extremal for the Reilly inequality on $\lambda_1$ and have $L^p$-bounded mean curvature ($p>n$) are Hausdorff close to a sphere, have almost constant mean curvature and have a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Erwann Aubry , Jean-Francois Grosjean , Julien Roth

Let $M^n$ be a closed convex hypersurface lying in a convex ball $B(p,R)$ of the ambient $(n+1)$-manifold $N^{n+1}$. We prove that, by pinching Heintze-Reilly's inequality via sectional curvature upper bound of $B(p,R)$, 1st eigenvalue and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Yingxiang Hu , Shicheng Xu

The Euclidean mixed isoperimetric-isodiametric inequality states that the round ball maximizes the volume under constraint on the product between boundary area and radius. The goal of the paper is to investigate such mixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Andrea Mondino , Emanuele Spadaro

Let D be a bounded domain in n-dimensional Euclidean space, where n>2, and let 1<p< (2n)/(n-2). We prove a reverse-Holder inequality for functions realizing equality in the Sobolev inequality, which finds a lower bound for their (p-1)-norm…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Tom Carroll , Jesse Ratzkin

In this paper, we prove an isoperimetric inequality for lower order eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian on bounded domains of a Euclidean space which strengthens the well-known Ashbaugh-Beguria inequality conjectured by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Qiaoling Wang , Changyu Xia

We provide an answer to a question raised by Levine and Weinberger in their $1986$ paper concerning the difference between Dirichlet and Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. More precisely, we show…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Pedro Freitas , Miguel Gama

Let $M^n$ be a closed immersed hypersurface lying in a contractible ball $B(p,R)$ of the ambient $(n+1)$-manifold $N^{n+1}$. We prove that, by pinching Heintze-Reilly's inequality via sectional curvature upper bound of $B(p,R)$, 1st…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Yingxiang Hu , Shicheng Xu

We prove a sharp lower bound for the fundamental gap on convex domains in Gaussian spaces, the difference between the first two eigenvalues of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Our main result establishes…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jin Sun , Kui Wang

This paper studies eigenvalues of some Steklov problems. Among other things, we show the following sharp estimtes. Let $\Omega$ be a bounded smooth domain in an $n(\geq 2)$-dimensional Hadamard manifold an let $0=\lambda_0 < \lambda_1\leq…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-08 Changyu Xia , Qiaoling Wang