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March 2001 On the spectral gap for fixed membranes
Burgess Davis
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Ark. Mat. 39(1): 65-74 (March 2001). DOI: 10.1007/BF02388791

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The distance between the second and first eigenvalues for the Dirichlet Laplacian of a domain is called its (spectral) gap. We show that the gap of a convex planar domain D symmetric about both the x and y axes is no smaller than the gap of an oriented rectangle which contains D.

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Burgess Davis. "On the spectral gap for fixed membranes." Ark. Mat. 39 (1) 65 - 74, March 2001. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02388791

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Received: 27 September 1999; Revised: 20 January 2000; Published: March 2001
First available in Project Euclid: 31 January 2017

zbMATH: 1021.35040
MathSciNet: MR1821082
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/BF02388791

Rights: 2001 © Institut Mittag-Leffler

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