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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…
We study the spectrum of the Finsler--Laplace operator for regular Hilbert geometries, defined by convex sets with $C^2$ boundaries. We show that for an $n$-dimensional geometry, the spectral gap is bounded above by $(n-1)^2/4$, which we…
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We prove that the spectral gap of a finite planar graph $X$ is bounded by $\lambda_1(X)\le C(\frac{\log(\diam X)}{\diam X})^2$ where $C$ depends only on the degree of $X$. We then give a sequence of such graphs showing the the above…