Greatest least eigenvalue of the Laplacian on the Klein bottle

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Authors: Ahmad El Soufi, Hector Giacomini, Mustapha Jazar 

Publication date: 29 June 2005

Abstract: We prove the following conjecture recently formulated by Jakobson, Nadirashvili and Polterovich cite{JNP}: For any Riemannian metric $g$ on the Klein bottle $mathbbK$ one has ${\displaystyle }$lambda_1 (mathbb{K}, g) A (mathbb{K}, g)le 12 pi E(2sqrt 2/3),${\displaystyle }$ where $lambd{a}_1(mathbbK,g)$ and $A(mathbbK,g)$ stand for the least positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian and the area of $(mathbbK,g)$, respectively, and $E$ is the complete elliptic integral of the second kind. Moreover, the equality is uniquely achieved, up to dilatations, by the metric ${\displaystyle }$g_0= {9+ (1+8cos ^2v)^2over 1+8cos^2v} (du^2 + {dv^2over 1+8cos ^2v}),${\displaystyle }$ with $0leu,v<pi$. The proof of this theorem leads us to study a Hamiltonian dynamical system which turns out to be completely integrable by quadratures.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Critical metrics (58E11) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

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