Reverse Cheeger inequality for planar convex sets

TL;DR

This paper establishes a sharp inequality relating the first Laplacian eigenvalue and Cheeger constant for planar convex sets, identifying the optimal bound and exploring extremal sequences.

Contribution

It proves a sharp reverse Cheeger inequality for planar convex sets, including the existence and characterization of extremal sets, and improves bounds on the eigenvalue-Cheeger ratio.

Findings

The inequality (\u2206) < /4 is sharp.

Sequences with fixed volume and increasing diameter approach the supremum.

A lower bound for the ratio is established, with conditions for minimizers.

Abstract

We prove the sharp inequality \[ J(\Omega) := \frac{\lambda_1(\Omega)}{h_1(\Omega)^2} < \frac{\pi^2}{4},\] where $\Omega$ is any planar, convex set, $\lambda_1(\Omega)$ is the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian under Dirichlet boundary conditions, and $h_1(\Omega)$ is the Cheeger constant of $\Omega$. The value on the right-hand side is optimal, and any sequence of convex sets with fixed volume and diameter tending to infinity is a maximizing sequence. Morever, we discuss the minimization of $J$ in the same class of subsets: we provide a lower bound which improves the generic bound given by Cheeger's inequality, we show the existence of a minimizer, and we give some optimality conditions.