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 $M$ be an $n$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with strictly convex boundary. Suppose that the Ricci curvature of $M$ is bounded below by $(n-1)K$ for some constant $K\geq0$ and the first eigenfunction $f_1$ of Dirichlet (or Robin) eigenvalue problem of a Schrödinger operator on $M$ 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 $\mathbb{R} ^n$.

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

CLC Number: 

  • O186.1
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