Abstract
The classical Faber-Krahn inequality asserts that balls (uniquely) minimize the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian among sets with given volume. In this article we prove a sharp quantitative enhancement of this result, thus confirming a conjecture by Nadirashvili and by Bhattacharya and Weitsman. More generally, the result applies to every optimal Poincaré-Sobolev constant for the embeddings W 0 1,2 (ω) {right arrow, hooked} Lq(ω).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1777-1831 |
Number of pages | 55 |
Journal | Duke Mathematical Journal |
Volume | 164 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Mathematics