- Research Article
9
- 10.1007/bf00276699
On the ground state eigenfunction of a convex domain in Euclidean space
- Feb 01, 1996
- Potential Analysis
- Pawel Kr�Ger
We study the first eigenfunction φ 1 of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a convex domain in Euclidean space. Elementary properties of Bessel functions yield that $$\left\| {\phi _1 } \right\|_\infty /\left\| {\phi _1 } \right\|_2 \to \infty$$ if D is a sector in Euclidean plane with area 1 and the angle tends to 0. We aim to characterize those domains D such that $$(vol(D))^{1/2} \left\| {\phi _1 } \right\|_\infty /\left\| {\phi _1 } \right\|_2$$ is large in terms of the ratio of the first eigenvalue of D and the infimum of the first eigenvalues of all subdomains D≈ of D with given volume.
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