An upper bound for the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue

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Authors Xiaolong Li, Kui Wang, Haotian Wu

Publication date 6 March 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators (49R05)

Abstract: Let $(M^n,g)$ be a complete simply connected $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with curvature bounds $operatorname{Sect}_{g}leqkappa$ for $kappaleq0$ and $operatorname{Ric}_{g}geq(n-1)Kg$ for $Kleq0$. We prove that for any bounded domain $Omegasubset{M}^n$ with diameter $d$ and Lipschitz boundary, if $Omeg{a}^{\ast }$ is a geodesic ball in the simply connected space form with constant sectional curvature $kappa$ enclosing the same volume as $Omega$, then $sigm{a}_1(Omega)leqCsigm{a}_1(Omeg{a}^{\ast })$, where $sigm{a}_1(Omega)$ and $sigm{a}_1(Omeg{a}^{\ast })$ denote the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalues of $Omega$ and $Omeg{a}^{\ast }$ respectively, and $C=C(n,kappa,K,d)$ is an explicit constant. When $kappa=K$, we have $C=1$ and recover the Brock-Weinstock inequality, asserting that geodesic balls uniquely maximize the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue among domains of the same volume, in Euclidean space and the hyperbolic space.

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