Gradient Estimates on Dirichlet Eigenfunctions

Abstract: By methods of stochastic analysis on Riemannian manifolds, we derive explicit constants

c_{1} (D)

and

c_{2} (D)

for a

d

-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold

D

with boundary such that

c_{1} (D) s q r t l a m b d a | p h i |_{i} n f t y l e | a b l a p h i |_{i} n f t y l e c_{2} (D) s q r t l a m b d a | p h i |_{i} n f t y

holds for any Dirichlet eigenfunction

p h i

of

- D e l t a

with eigenvalue

l a m b d a

. In particular, when

D

is convex with nonnegative Ricci curvature, this estimate holds for

c_{1} (D) = f r a c 1 d e

and

c_{2} (D) = s q r t e l e f t (f r a c s q r t 2 s q r t p i + f r a c s q r t p i 4 s q r t 2 i g h t)

. Corresponding two-sided gradient estimates for Neumann eigenfunctions are derived in the second part of the paper.

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