Isoperimetric Inequalities for Higher Eigenvalues of the Laplace--Beltrami Operator on Surfaces

Alexei V. Penskoi

Informatics and Automation, Algebraic topology, combinatorics, and mathematical physics, Tome 305 (2019), pp. 291-308.

Résumé

Recent advances in isoperimetric inequalities for higher eigenvalues of the Laplace–Beltrami operator on the sphere and on the projective plane are discussed.

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