Optimal eigenvalue estimates for the Robin Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds

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Abstract: We consider the first eigenvalue lambda1(Omega,sigma) of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions on a compact Riemannian manifold Omega with smooth boundary, being the Robin boundary parameter. When sigma>0 we give a positive, sharp lower bound of lambda1(Omega,sigma) in terms of an associated one-dimensional problem depending on the geometry through a lower bound of the Ricci curvature of Omega, a lower bound of the mean curvature of partialOmega and the inradius. When the boundary parameter is negative, the lower bound becomes an upper bound. In particular, explicit bounds for mean-convex Euclidean domains are obtained, which improve known estimates. Then, we extend a monotonicity result for lambda1(Omega,sigma) obtained in Euclidean space by Giorgi and Smits to a class of manifolds of revolution which include all space forms of constant sectional curvature. As an application, we prove that lambda1(Omega,sigma) is uniformly bounded below by frac(n1)24 for all bounded domains in the hyperbolic space of dimension n, provided that the boundary parameter sigmageqfracn12 (McKean-type inequality). Asymptotics for large hyperbolic balls are also discussed



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