Isoperimetric profile and uniqueness for Neumann problems

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2007.07.002MaRDI QIDQ1001979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 20 February 2009

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/78845

isoperimetric profile mean field equations Neumann eigenvalues semilinear equations uniqueness

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

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Let \((M, g)\) be a connected and compact Riemannian surface and \(f\) an absolutely continuous function satisfying \(f\geq f'>0.\) The paper deals with classical solutions of the Neumann problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta_gu=f(u)-\alpha & \text{in}\;M,\\ {{\partial u}\over {\partial n}}=0 & \text{on}\;\partial M, \end{cases} \] where \(\alpha\) is a real parameter. The author proves that any non-constant solution of that problem satisfies \[ \int_M f(u)\geq 8\pi \inf_{s\in (0,\text{vol}(M))}\left\{{{I^2_M(s)}\over{I^2_{\mathbb S_M}(s)}}\right\} \] where \(I_M\) and \(I_{\mathbb S_M}\) denote respectively the isoperimetric profile of \(M\) and of the standard two-dimensional sphere having the same measure as \(M.\) That inequality is applied in deriving new uniqueness results for equations of mean field type. A similar result for linear problems is established and it gives lower bounds for the first non-zero Neumann eigenvalue.

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