Bounds on eigenvalues on riemannian manifolds

Series
CDSNS Colloquium
Time
Friday, September 11, 2015 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Yannick Sire – John Hopkins University
Organizer
Rafael de la Llave
I will describe several recent results with N. Nadirashvili where we construct extremal metrics for eigenvalues on riemannian surfaces. This involves the study of a Schrodinger operator. As an application, one gets isoperimetric inequalities on the 2-sphere for the third eigenvalue of the Laplace Beltrami operator.