Eigenvalues of the Laplacian with density
Salam Kouzayha, Luc Pétiard · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019
Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with a boundary of class $\mathscr{C}^{1}$. We are interested in the spectrum of the weighted Laplacian on $M$ with Neumann boundary conditions. More precisely, given $ρ$ and $σ$ two positive functions on $M$, we study the eigenvalues of the equation $-\operatorname{div}(σ abla u)=λρu$. Inspired by a recent work of B. Colbois and A. El Soufi, we investigate upper bounds for the eigenvalues in the case where $σ=ρ^α$, $α>0$. We show that $α= \frac{n-2}{n}$ plays a critical role in the estimation of the spectrum when the total mass of $ρ$ is fixed.