An optimal dimension-free upper bound for eigenvalue ratios

MaRDI QIDQ6251397zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Shiping Liu

Publication date 9 May 2014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: On a closed weighted Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Bakry-'{E}mery Ricci curvature, it is shown that the ratio of the $k$-th to first eigenvalues of the weighted Laplacian is dominated by $641k^2$, using an argument via the Cheeger constant. While improving the previous exponential upper bound, the order of $k$ here is optimal, and hence answers an open question of Funano. This approach works still on a compact finite-dimensional Alexandrov space of nonnegative curvature and proves affirmatively a conjecture of Funano and Shioya asserting a dimension free upper bound for eigenvalue ratios in that setting.

This page was built for publication: An optimal dimension-free upper bound for eigenvalue ratios

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6251397)