A spectral gap estimate and applications

DOI10.1007/S11118-017-9670-6zbMATH Open1400.35192OpenAlexW2588413686MaRDI QIDQ1787166FDOQ1787166

Authors: Bogdan Georgiev, Mayukh Mukherjee, Stefan Steinerberger 

Publication date: 4 October 2018

Published in: Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the Schr"odinger operator ${\displaystyle }$-frac{d^2}{d x^2} + V qquad mbox{on an interval}~~[a,b]~mbox{with Dirichlet boundary conditions},${\displaystyle }$ where $V$ is bounded from below and prove a lower bound on the first eigenvalue $lambd{a}_1$ in terms of sublevel estimates: if $w_V(y)=|I_y|,extwhere{I}_y:=leftxin[a,b]:V(x)leqyight,$ then ${\displaystyle }$ lambda_1 geq frac{1}{250} min_{y > min V}{left(frac{1}{w_V(y)^2} + y ight)}.${\displaystyle }$ The result is sharp up to a universal constant if $leftxin[a,b]:V(x)leqyight$ is an interval for the value of $y$ solving the minimization problem. An immediate application is as follows: let $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^2$ be a convex domain with inradius $ho$ and diameter $D$ and let $u:OmegaightarrowmathbbR$ be the first eigenfunction of the Laplacian $-Delta$ on $Omega$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions on $partialOmega$. We prove ${\displaystyle }$ | u |_{L^{infty}} lesssim frac{1}{ ho^{}} left( frac{ ho}{D} ight)^{1/6} |u|_{L^2},${\displaystyle }$ which answers a question of van den Berg in the special case of two dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.08565

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zbMATH Keywords

ground stateLaplacian eigenfunctionconvex domainSchrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75)

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