Laplacian eigenvalues and distances between subsets of a manifold
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Laplacian eigenvalues and distances between subsets of a manifold
zbMATH Open document ID: 1032.58015
author: Joel Friedman
author: Jean-Pierre Tillich
published in: Journal of Differential Geometry
publication date: 2002-08-15T00:00:00Z
review text: In the paper under review, the authors prove the following theorem: Let \(L\) be an analytic Laplacian on a metric measure space \((M,\mu)\), and let \(\lambda_{1}\) be the lower bound of the spectrum of \(L\) acting on the functions orthogonal to the constants. Then for \(X,Y\) disjoint Borel subsets of \(M\), we have: \[ \lambda_{1}\leq \frac{1}{\text{dist}^{2}(X,Y)}\Big(\cos h^{-1} (\sqrt{\frac{\mu(X^{c})\mu(Y^{c})} {\mu(X)\mu(Y)}})\Big)^{2} \] where \(X^{c}\) (resp. \(Y^{c}\)) is the complement of \(X\) (resp. \(Y\)). The authors introduce a new method to convert results on graph theoretic Laplacians into results concerning Laplacians in Analysis. They also prove several variants of their main theorem and give various examples. In particular, they illustrate their method by the example where \(M\) is a connected compact Riemannian manifold.
reviewed by: Salah Mehdi
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58J50
zbMATH DE Number: 1782669
zbMATH Keywords: Laplacian
zbMATH Keywords: Graph theoretic Laplacian
zbMATH Keywords: Eigenvalues
zbMATH Keywords: Neumann eigenvalue
Wikidata QID: Q115202946
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1090347645
OpenAlex ID: W1566142717
DOI: 10.4310/JDG/1090347645
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