English
Related papers

Related papers: First Dirichlet eigenvalue and exit time moment sp…

200 papers

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian with homogeneous Robin boundary conditions, when the (positive) Robin parameter is diverging. In this framework, since the convergence of the Robin eigenvalues to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Roberto Ognibene

A stability result in terms of the perimeter is obtained for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian operator. In particular, we prove that, once we fix the dimension $n\geq2$, there exists a constant $c>0$, depending only on $n$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Gloria Paoli

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

Let $\lambda_i(\Omega,V)$ be the $i$th eigenvalue of the Schr\"odinger operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \R^n$ and with the positive potential $V$. Following the spirit of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael D. Benguria , Helmut Linde

We consider twisted eigenvalues $\lambda_{1}^{g}(\Omega)$, defined as the minimum of the Rayleigh quotient of functions in $H^1_{0}(\Omega)$ that are orthogonal to a given function $g\in L^2_\text{loc}(\mathbb R^d)$. We prove an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Emanuele Salato , Davide Zucco

The purpose of this short note is to give a variation on the classical Donsker-Varadhan inequality, which bounds the first eigenvalue of a second-order elliptic operator on a bounded domain $\Omega$ by the largest mean first exit time of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Jianfeng Lu , Stefan Steinerberger

Let $\Omega$ be some domain in the hyperbolic space $\Hn$ (with $n\ge 2$) and $S_1$ the geodesic ball that has the same first Dirichlet eigenvalue as $\Omega$. We prove the Payne-P\'olya-Weinberger conjecture for $\Hn$, i.e., that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael D. Benguria , Helmut Linde

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jian Ge

Let $M$ be a closed hypersurface in a simply connected rank-1 symmetric space $\olm$. In this paper, we give an upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian of $M$ in terms of the Ricci curvature of $\olm$ and the square of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-24 G. Santhanam

In this article, we prove an eigenvalue pinching theorem for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on compact hypersurfaces in a sphere. Let $(M^n,g)$ be a closed, connected and oriented Riemannian manifold isometrically immersed by $\phi$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Yingxiang Hu , Hongwei Xu

We show that as the ratio between the first Dirichlet eigenvalues of a convex domain and of the ball with the same volume becomes large, the same must happen to the corresponding ratio of isoperimetric constants. The proof is based on the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-10 Pedro Freitas , David Krejcirik

We establish a lower bound for the principal $p-$frequency $\lambda_{1,p}(\Omega)$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$ in a non-compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n.$ Under the assumption that the Ricci curvature satisfies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Xiaoshang Jin , Zhiwei Lü

In this article, we establish a geometric lower bound for the first positive eigenvalue $\lambda^{(1)}_{1}$ of the rough Laplacian acting on $1$-forms for closed $2n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonvanishing Euler characteristic.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Teng Huang , Weiwei Wang

We study a discrete and continuous version of the spectral Dirichlet problem in an open bounded connected set $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, in dimension $d\geq 2$. More precisely, consider the simple random walk on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ killed…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Quentin Berger , Nicolas Bouchot

We give lower and upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of geodesic balls in spherically symmetric manifolds. These lower and upper bounds are $C^{0}$-dependent on the metric coefficients. It gives better lower bounds for the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-19 Cleon S. Barroso , G. Pacelli Bessa

In this paper we investigate the behavior of the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian on sets in $\mathbb{R}^N$ whose first eigenvalue is close to the one of the ball with the same volume. In particular in our main Theorem we prove that,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Dario Mazzoleni , Aldo Pratelli

We find lower and upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of a nonlocal diffusion operator of the form $ T(u) = - \int_{\rr^d} K(x,y) (u(y)-u(x)) \, dy$. Here we consider a kernel $K(x,y)=\psi (y-a(x))+\psi(x-a(y))$ where $\psi$ is a bounded,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-18 L. I. Ignat , J. D. Rossi , A. San Antolin

We establish lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a closed K\"ahler manifold in terms of dimension, diameter, and lower bounds of holomorphic sectional curvature and orthogonal Ricci curvature. On compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang

We prove a sharp upper bound for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of a class of nonlinear elliptic operators which includes the p-Laplace and the pseudo-p-Laplace operators. Moreover, we prove a stability result by means of a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Francesco Della Pietra , Nunzia Gavitone

Let $(\Omega,g)$ be a piecewise-smooth, bounded convex domain in $\R^2$ and consider $L^2$-normalized Neumann eigenfunctions $\phi_{\lambda}$ with eigenvalue $\lambda^2$ and $u_{\lambda}:= \phi_{\lambda} |_{\partial \Omega}$ the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Hans Christianson , John A. Toth