Existence and regularity of maximal metrics for the first Laplace eigenvalue on surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00039-014-0292-5zbMATH Open1310.58022arXiv1310.4697OpenAlexW1993075962MaRDI QIDQ484098FDOQ484098

Authors: Romain Petrides 

Publication date: 18 December 2014

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate in this paper the existence of a metric which maximizes the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on Riemannian surfaces. We first prove that, in a given conformal class, there always exists such a maximizing metric which is smooth except at a finite set of conical singularities. This result is similar to the beautiful result concerning Steklov eigenvalues recently obtained by Fraser and Schoen. Then we get existence results among all metrics on surfaces of a given genus, leading to the existence of minimal isometric immersions of smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension 2 into some $k$-sphere by first eigenfunctions. At last, we also answer a conjecture of Friedlander and Nadirashvili which asserts that the supremum of the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a conformal class can be taken as close as we want of its value on the sphere on any orientable surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4697

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zbMATH Keywords

Moser-Trudinger inequalityconformal classfirst eigenvalue on Riemann surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10)

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