A note on lower bounds estimates for the Neumann eigenvalues of manifolds with positive Ricci curvature (Q438671)

The authors study the \(k\)-th Neumann eigenvalue \(\lambda_k\) on a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\) with positive Ricci curvature bounded from below by \(\rho>0\) and convex boundary. New heat kernel estimates are derived. As a consequence one obtains estimates of the form \(\lambda_k \geq C_1(n,\rho, k)\) and \(\lambda_k \geq C_2(n,d(M), k),\) where \(d(M)\) is the diameter. The functions \(C_1(n,\rho, k)\) and \(C_2(n,d(M), k)\) have order \(k^{2/n}\) for \(k\to\infty,\) which is consistent with Weyl's asymptotic.