Published October 27, 2022 | Version public
Journal Article

An inequality for the normal derivative of the Lane-Emden ground state

  • 1. ROR icon Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2. ROR icon Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology
  • 3. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 4. ROR icon University of Gothenburg

Abstract

We consider Lane–Emden ground states with polytropic index 0 ≤ q − 1 ≤ 1, that is, minimizers of the Dirichlet integral among L^q-normalized functions. Our main result is a sharp lower bound on the L²-norm of the normal derivative in terms of the energy, which implies a corresponding isoperimetric inequality. Our bound holds for arbitrary bounded open Lipschitz sets Ω ⊂ ℝᵈ, without assuming convexity.

Additional Information

Funding statement: Partial support through U.S. National Science Foundation grant DMS-1954995 (R. L. Frank), through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through Germany's Excellence Strategy EXC-2111-390814868 (R. L. Frank), and through Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation grant KAW 2021.0193 (S. Larson) is acknowledged. The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for helpful suggestions.

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Eprint ID
117498
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CaltechAUTHORS:20221019-344256700.16

Funding

NSF
DMS-1954995
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
EXC-2111-390814868
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
KAW 2021.0193

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