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We give upper bounds on the eigenvalues of the differential form Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold. The proof uses Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below. We also construct differential form Laplacians on Alexandrov spaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-11 John Lott

The Steklov eigenvalue problem, first introduced over 125 years ago, has seen a surge of interest in the past few decades. This article is a tour of some of the recent developments linking the Steklov eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Bruno Colbois , Alexandre Girouard , Carolyn Gordon , David Sher

We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Changshuo Liu , Nicolas Boumal

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first we study an eigenvalue problem for the fractional $p$-sub-Laplacian over the fractional Folland-Stein-Sobolev spaces on stratified Lie groups. We apply variational methods to investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Sekhar Ghosh , Vishvesh Kumar , Michael Ruzhansky

Consider a Dirac operator on an oriented compact surface endowed with a Riemannian metric and spin structure. Provided the area and the conformal class are fixed, how small can the $k$-th positive Dirac eigenvalue be? This problem mirrors…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Mikhail Karpukhin , Antoine Métras , Iosif Polterovich

In this paper, we study the spectrum of the weighted Laplacian (also called Bakry-Emery or Witten Laplacian) $L_\sigma$ on a compact, connected, smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ endowed with a measure $\sigma dv_g$. First, we obtain upper…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Bruno Colbois , Ahmad El Soufi , Alessandro Savo

In this paper, two interesting eigenvalue comparison theorems for the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue of the Laplacian have been established for manifolds with radial sectional curvature bounded from above. Besides, sharper bounds for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Yan Zhao , Chuanxi Wu , Jing Mao , Feng Du

We prove an upper bound for the volume-normalized second nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplace operator on closed Riemannian manifold, in terms of the conformal volume. This bound provides effective upper bound for a large class of manifolds,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Mehdi Eddaoudi , Alexandre Girouard

In this paper, we study the problem of minimizing the first eigenvalue of the $p-$Laplacian plus a potential with weights, when the potential and the weight are allowed to vary in the class of rearrangements of a given fixed potential $V_0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-30 Leandro M. Del Pezzo , Julián Fernández Bonder

We study a shape optimization problem associated with the first eigenvalue of a nonlinear spectral problem involving a mixed operator ($p-$Laplacian and Laplacian) with a constraint on the volume. First, we prove the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Rocard Michel Gouton , Aboubacar Marcos , Diaraf Seck

Consider the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a closed surface as a functional on the space of Riemannian metrics of unit area. N. Nadirashvili has discovered a remarkable connection between critical points of this functional…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Mikhail Karpukhin

In this paper, we firstly consider Dirichlet eigenvalue problem which is related to Xin-Laplacian on the bounded domain of complete Riemannian manifolds. By establishing the general formulas, combining with some results of Chen and Cheng…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Lingzhong Zeng , Zhouyuan Zeng

We consider the first Robin eigenvalue $\l_p(M,\a)$ for the $p$-Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with nonempty smooth boundary, with $\a \in \R$ being the Robin parameter. Firstly, we prove eigenvalue comparison theorems of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang

We study an eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on a compact K\"{a}hler manifold. Considering the $k$-th eigenvalue $\lambda_{k}$ as a functional on the space of K\"{a}hler metrics with fixed volume on a compact complex manifold, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Kazumasa Narita

We provide a lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a closed orientable hypersurface minimally embedded in an orientable compact Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded below by a positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Egor Surkov

We study Laplace eigenvalues $\lambda_k$ on K\"ahler manifolds as functionals on the space of K\"ahler metrics with cohomologous K\"ahler forms. We introduce a natural notion of a $\lambda_k$-extremal K\"ahler metric and obtain necessary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Vestislav Apostolov , Dmitry Jakobson , Gerasim Kokarev

In this note we establish an expression for the Steklov spectrum of warped products in terms of auxiliary Steklov problems for drift Laplacians with weight induced by the warping factor. As an application, we show that a compact manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Alexandre Girouard , Panagiotis Polymerakis

Given a smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, compact and without boundary, we analyze the dynamical optimal mass transport problem where the cost is given by the sum of the kinetic energy and the relative entropy with respect to a reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Gabriele Bocchi , Alessio Porretta

We consider optimization problems with manifold-valued constraints. These generalize classical equality and inequality constraints to a setting in which both the domain and the codomain of the constraint mapping are smooth manifolds. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Ronny Bergmann , Roland Herzog , Julián Ortiz López , Anton Schiela

In analogy with classical results in Riemannian geometry, we establish estimates for the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-de Rham operator on complete balanced Hermitian manifolds in terms of either the holomorphic Ricci curvature or the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Liangdi Zhang