Localisation of the first eigenfunction of a convex domain

DOI10.1080/03605302.2020.1843050MaRDI QIDQ4994921zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas L. Beck

Publication date 22 June 2021

Published in Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04905

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet eigenfunctioneigenvalue estimateslarge eccentricity of the domainlevel sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05)

Abstract: We study the first Dirichlet eigenfunction of the Laplacian in a $n$-dimensional convex domain. For domains of a fixed inner radius, estimates of Chiti imply that the ratio of the $L^2$-norm and $L^{infty}$-norm of the eigenfunction is minimized when the domain is a ball. However, when the eccentricity of the domain is large the eigenfunction should spread out at a certain scale and this ratio should increase. We make this precise by obtaining a lower bound on the $L^2$-norm of the eigenfunction and show that the eigenfunction cannot localize to too small a subset of the domain. As a consequence, we settle a conjecture of van den Berg, in the general $n$-dimensional case. The main feature of the proof is to obtain sufficiently sharp estimates on the first eigenvalue in order to estimate the first derivatives of the eigenfunction.

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