Convexity inequalities for eigenvalues and log-concavity of eigenfunctions
Analysis of PDEs
2026-05-05 v1
Abstract
We give simple new proofs of two well-known results for the Schr\"odinger operator: first, the Brunn--Minkowski inequality for Dirichlet eigenvalues and, second, the log-concavity of the first Dirichlet eigenfunction. Our proof of the first applies to a class of domains including connected domains and convex potentials. In the special case of convex domains, the second result is a simple corollary.
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@article{arxiv.2605.01334,
title = {Convexity inequalities for eigenvalues and log-concavity of eigenfunctions},
author = {Paul Bryan and Julie Clutterbuck and Cale Rankin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.01334},
year = {2026}
}
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7 pages