Extrinsic upper bounds for \(\lambda _ 1\) (Q1093182): Difference between revisions

We derive several sharp upper bounds for \(\lambda _ 1\), the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian of a compact immersed submanifold in terms of the second fundamental form. In connection with these upper bounds we define new Riemannian invariants \(c_ n(\bar M)\), \(1\leq n\leq \dim \bar M\).