Nonlinear spectrums of Finsler manifolds (Q2070922)

In this paper, authors investigate the nonlinear spectrums of Finsler manifolds. Due to the nonlinearity of the Finsler-Laplacian operator, they introduce faithful dimension pairs by means of which the spectrum of a compact reversible Finsler metric measure manifold is defined. Various upper and lower bounds of such eigenvalues are provided in the spirit of Cheng, Buser and Gromov, which extend in several aspects the results of Hassannezhad, Kokarev and Polterovich. Moreover, they construct several faithful dimension pairs based on Lusternik-Schnirelmann category, Krasnoselskii genus and essential dimension, respectively; however, they also show that the Lebesgue covering dimension pair is not faithful. As an application, they show that the Bakry-Émery spectrum of a closed weighted Riemannian manifold can be characterized by the faithful Lusternik-Schnirelmann dimension pair.