Extremal Metric for the First Eigenvalue on a Klein Bottle

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DOI10.4153/CJM-2006-016-0zbMATH Open1104.58008arXivmath/0311484OpenAlexW1974798866MaRDI QIDQ5480063FDOQ5480063

Dmitry Jakobson, Iosif Polterovich, Nikolai Nadirashvili

Publication date: 25 July 2006

Published in: Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a surface can be viewed as a functional on the space of Riemannian metrics of a given area. Critical points of this functional are called extremal metrics. The only known extremal metrics are a round sphere, a standard projective plane, a Clifford torus and an equilateral torus. We construct an extremal metric on a Klein bottle. It is a metric of revolution, admitting a minimal isometric embedding into a 4-sphere by the first eigenfunctions. Also, this Klein bottle is a bipolar surface for the Lawson's {3,1}-torus. We conjecture that an extremal metric for the first eigenvalue on a Klein bottle is unique, and hence it provides a sharp upper bound for the first eigenvalue on a Klein bottle of a given area. We present numerical evidence and prove the first results towards this conjecture.


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