Estimate for the first fourth Steklov eigenvalue of a minimal hypersurface with free boundary (Q6137566)

In this paper, the authors consider a fourth order Steklov problem on a compact hypersurface \(\Sigma^{n}\) with free boundary empedded in a compact manifold \(M^{n+1}\) with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary. Under suitable conditions (among them the minimality of \(\Sigma^n\)) a lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the problem is found, in a similar fashion as in [\textit{A. Fraser} and \textit{M. M. C. Li}, J. Differ. Geom. 96, No. 2, 183--200 (2014; Zbl 1295.53062)]. A more refined result is proved in the case where \(M\) is the unit ball.