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(n−1)24 for all bounded domains in the hyperbolic space of dimension n, provided that the boundary parameter sigmageqfracn−12 (McKean-type inequality). Asymptotics for large hyperbolic balls are also discussed




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