A Lichnerowicz estimate for the spectral gap of a sub-Laplacian

DOI10.1090/proc/14223zbMath1470.35147arXiv1708.05835MaRDI QIDQ5238097

Erlend Grong, Stine Marie Berge

Publication date: 28 October 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05835

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Laplacian; Lichnerowicz estimate; bound for a spectral gap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35P15: Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs

47A75: Eigenvalue problems for linear operators

53C21: Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions

53C17: Sub-Riemannian geometry

35H20: Subelliptic equations