Acta mathematica scientia,Series A ›› 2020, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 257-270.

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An Estimate of Spectral Gap for Schrödinger Operators on Compact Manifolds

Yue He1,*(),Hailong Her2()   

  1. 1 Institute of Mathematics, School of Mathematics Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023
    2 Department of Mathematics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632
  • Received:2018-08-08 Online:2020-04-26 Published:2020-05-21
  • Contact: Yue He E-mail:heyue@njnu.edu.cn;hailongher@126.com; hailongher@jnu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the NSFC(11671209);the NSFC(11871278);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions

Abstract:

Let be an -dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with strictly convex boundary. Suppose that the Ricci curvature of is bounded below by for some constant and the first eigenfunction of Dirichlet (or Robin) eigenvalue problem of a Schrödinger operator on is log-concave. Then we obtain a lower bound estimate of the gap between the first two Dirichlet (or Robin) eigenvalues of such Schrödinger operator. This generalizes a recent result by Andrews et al. ([4]) for Laplace operator on a bounded convex domain in .

Key words: Schrödinger operator, Dirichlet eigenvalue, Robin eigenvalue, Spectral gap, Manifold with convex boundary, Ricci curvature

CLC Number: 

  • O186.1
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