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We prove differential Harnack inequalities for flows of strictly convex hypersurfaces by powers $p$, $0<p<1$, of the mean curvature in Einstein manifolds with a positive lower bound on the sectional curvature. We assume that this lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Paul Bryan , Heiko Kröner , Julian Scheuer

In this paper, by meticulously constructing a minimizing sequence within a suitable Sobolev space and leveraging the variational principle, we establish that the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on an embedded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Lingzhong Zeng

This article is an expanded version of the plenary talk given by Evans Harrell at QMath98, a meeting in Prague, June 1998. We consider Laplace operators and Schr\"odinger operators with potentials containing curvature on certain regions of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Exner , Evans M. Harrell , Michael Loss

In this paper, we investigate eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem and the closed eigenvalue problem of drifting Laplacian on the complete metric measure spaces and establish the corresponding general formulas. By using those general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Lingzhong Zeng

Let $u$ be an eigenfunction of the Laplacian on a compact manifold with boundary, with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, and let $-\lambda^2$ be the corresponding eigenvalue. We consider the problem of estimating the maximum of $u$…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Grieser

In this paper, we establish several inequalities of Dirichlet eigenvalues for Laplace operator $\Delta $ with any order on \emph{n}-dimensional Euclidean space. These inequalities are more general than known Yang's inequalities and contain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Na Huang , Pengcheng Niu

We provide bounds for the sequence of eigenvalues $\{\lambda_i(\Omega)\}_i$ of the Dirichlet problem $$ L_\Delta u=\lambda u\ \ {\rm in}\ \, \Omega,\quad\quad u=0\ \ {\rm in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^N\setminus \Omega,$$ where $L_\Delta$ is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Huyuan Chen , Laurent Veron

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

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

We prove existence results for optimization problems for the $k$th Laplace eigenvalue on closed Riemannian manifolds of dimension $m \geq 3$, depending on the choice of normalization. One such normalization leads to eigenvalue optimization…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Denis Vinokurov

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact, smooth, Riemannian manifold and $\{ \phi_h \}$ an $L^2$-normalized sequence of Laplace eigenfunctions with defect measure $\mu$. Let $H$ be a smooth hypersurface. Our main result says that when $\mu$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Yaiza Canzani , Jeffrey Galkowski , John A. Toth

This article concerns upper bounds for $L^\infty$-norms of random approximate eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on a compact aperiodic Riemannian manifold $(M,g).$ We study $f_{\lambda}$ chosen uniformly at random from the space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Yaiza Canzani , Boris Hanin

For an $n$-dimensional polytope $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, we study lower bounds for eigenvalues of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem of the Laplacian. In the asymptotic formula on the average of the first $k$ eigenvalues, Li and Yau…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Qing-Ming Cheng , Xuerong Qi

In this paper, we investigate submanifolds with locally bounded mean curvature in Hadamard manifolds, product manifolds $N\times\mathbb{R}$, submanifolds with bounded $\varphi$-mean curvature in the hyperbolic space, and successfully give…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Jing Mao , Rong-Qiang Tu , Kai Zeng

The result in the title is proven, using the Selberg estimate on the leading eigenvalue of the non-Euclidean Laplacian, and the method of conformal volumes of Li and Yau.

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Dan Abramovich

Antonio Ros gave a lower bound for the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ of $\Delta$ of a $P$-manifold $(M, g)$ in terms of the lower bound on the Ricci curvature $Ric_M$ and asked what happened when this lower bound was achieved. In this paper…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Akhil Ranjan , G. Santhanam

We establish new connections between integral curvature bounds and the Euler characteristic of closed Riemannian manifolds through the perspective of Schr\"odinger-type operators. Central to our approach is the twisted Dirac operator…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Teng Huang , Pan Zhang

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

In this paper, we establish universal inequalities for eigenvalues of the clamped plate problem on compact submanifolds of Euclidean spaces, of spheres and of real, complex and quaternionic projective spaces. We also prove similar results…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-28 Said Ilias , Ola Makhoul

In our previous work we introduced, for a Riemannian surface $S$, the quantity $ \Lambda(S):=\inf_F\lambda_0(F)$, where $\lambda_0(F)$ denotes the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of $F$ and the infimum is taken over all compact subsurfaces $F$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Werner Ballmann , Henrik Matthiesen , Sugata Mondal