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Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. We consider the problem (first studied by Escobar in 1992) of finding a conformal metric with constant scalar curvature in the interior and zero mean curvature on the boundary. Using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-04 S. Brendle , S. Chen

We consider the first positive Steklov eigenvalue on planar domains. First, we provide an example of a planar domain for which a first eigenfunction has a closed nodal line. Second, we establish a lower bound for the first positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Azahara DelaTorre , Gabriele Mancini , Angela Pistoia , Luigi Provenzano

The aim of this paper is give a simple proof of some results in \cite{Jun Ling-2006-IJM} and \cite{JunLing-2007-AGAG}, which are very deep studies in the sharp lower bound of the first eigenvalue in the Laplacian operator on compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Yue He

We prove a lower bound estimate for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Witten-Laplacian on compact Riemannian manifolds. As an application, we derive a lower bound estimate for the diameter of compact gradient shrinking Ricci solitons.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Akito Futaki , Haizhong Li , Xiang-Dong Li

In this article, we first show that given a smooth function $ S $ either on closed manifolds $ (M, g) $ or compact manifolds $ (\bar{M}, g) $ with non-empty boundary, both for dimensions at least $ 3 $, the condition $ S \equiv 0 $, or $ S…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Jie Xu

We demonstrate lower bounds for the eigenvalues of compact Bakry-Emery manifolds with and without boundary. The lower bounds for the first eigenvalue rely on a generalised maximum principle which allows gradient estimates in the Riemannian…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Nelia Charalambous , Zhiqin Lu , Julie Rowlett

We give explicit isoperimetric upper bounds for all Steklov eigenvalues of a compact orientable surface with boundary, in terms of the genus, the length of the boundary, and the number of boundary components. Our estimates generalize a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-10 Alexandre Girouard , Iosif Polterovich

We consider mixed Steklov-Dirichlet eigenvalue problem on smooth bounded domains in Riemannian manifolds. Under certain symmetry assumptions on multiconnected domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ with a spherical hole, we obtain isoperimetric…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Sagar Basak , Anisa Chorwadwala , Sheela Verma

We prove a new lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on a compact Riemannian spin manifold by refined Weitzenb\"ock techniques. It applies to manifolds with harmonic curvature tensor and depends on the Ricci tensor.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Friedrich , Klaus-Dieter Kirchberg

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

A result of M. Ledoux is that a complete Riemannian manifold with non negative Ricci curvature satisfying the Euclidean Sobolev inequality is the Euclidean space. We present a shortcut of the proof. We also give a refinement of a result of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Gilles Carron

We study a Dirichlet-to-Neumann eigenvalue problem for differential forms on a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary. This problem is a natural generalization of the classical Steklov problem on functions. We derive a number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Simon Raulot , Alessandro Savo

We study the hemisphere threshold for the conformally covariant Escobar functional on compact Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with boundary. The near-threshold landscape is organized by boundary invariants: the first-order coefficient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Mayukh Mukherjee , Utsab Sarkar

We prove that given a hyperbolic manifold endowed with an auxiliary Riemannian metric whose sectional curvature is negative and whose volume is sufficiently small in comparison to the hyperbolic one, we can always find for any radius at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Florent Balacheff , Steve Karam

We give some sharp lower bounds of the first eigenvalue for the Hodge Laplacian acting on differential forms on the boundary of a Riemannian manifold. We also give some sharp estimates for the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Kwok-Kun Kwong

Motivated by Perelman's Pseudo Locality Theorem for the Ricci flow, we prove that if a Riemannian manifold has Ricci curvature bounded below in a metric ball which moreover has almost maximal volume, then in a smaller ball (in a quantified…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We obtain some Liouville type theorems for positive harmonic functions on compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary and partially verifies Wang's conjecture (J. Geom. Anal. 31 (2021)). For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Xiaohan Cai

In this paper, we are concerned with the regularity of noncollapsed Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with bounded Ricci curvature, as well as their Gromov-Hausdorff limit spaces $(M^n_j,d_j)\stackrel{d_{GH}}{\longrightarrow} (X,d)$, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Jeff Cheeger , Aaron Naber

It is proved that a convex hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold of sectional curvature at least k is an Alexandrov's space of curvature at least k. This theorem provides an optimal lower curvature bound for an older theorem of Buyalo.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Stephanie Alexander , Vitali Kapovitch , Anton Petrunin

We develop new methods to compare the span $\mathcal{C}(\Sigma)$ of the coordinate functions on a free boundary minimal submanifold $\Sigma$ embedded in the unit $n$-ball $\mathbb{B}^n$ with its first Steklov eigenspace…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Robert Kusner , Peter McGrath