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48 results for Fundamental Gap

The article explores the fundamental gap in Bakry-Emery geometry.

problem The fundamental gap in Bakry-Emery geometry.
method Recalled Bakry-Emery geometry and connected eigenvalues with boundary conditions. Showed a connection between fundamental gap and Bakry-Emery geometry.
result Presented key ideas in Andrews's and Clutterbuck's proof of the fundamental gap conjecture.

Study shows fundamental gap of horoconvex domains in hyperbolic space has no positive lower bound.

problem Understanding the fundamental gap of horoconvex domains in hyperbolic space.
method Analysis of fundamental gap of geodesic balls as radius goes to infinity.
result Product of fundamental gap and square of diameter has no positive lower bound for horoconvex domains.

New convex domains in hyperbolic space can have lower fundamental gap than constant potentials.

problem Finding convex domains with lower fundamental gap than constant potentials.
method Constructing specific convex domains and potentials with controlled eigenfunctions.
result Fundamental gap of Δ+V-Δ+V can be strictly smaller than Δ for convex domains.

Study calculates eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for spherical triangles and finds fundamental gap behavior.

problem Understanding eigenvalues and gaps in spherical triangles.
method Explicit computation of Dirichlet eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for spherical lunes and triangles.
result Fundamental gap of spherical triangles increases as the angle of the lune decreases.

The study improves fundamental gap estimates for surfaces with non-constant positive curvature.

problem Estimating the fundamental gap for surfaces with non-constant positive curvature.
method Using a two-point maximum principle, the study establishes log-concavity and fundamental gap estimates.
result Corresponding log-concavity and fundamental gap estimates for surfaces with non-constant positive curvature are derived.

The article proves a conjecture about the fundamental gap for horoconvex domains in hyperbolic space.

problem Proving a conjecture about the fundamental gap for horoconvex domains in hyperbolic space.
method Establishing conformal log-concavity estimates for the first eigenfunction.
result Proves a conjecture about the fundamental gap for horoconvex domains in hyperbolic space.

Proves a fundamental gap lower bound for horoconvex domains in hyperbolic space.

problem Proving a fundamental gap lower bound for horoconvex domains in hyperbolic space.
method Reduces the problem to a radial-height problem, compares Dirichlet forms with angular operators, and uses Green estimates.
result Establishes a polynomial \(D^{-3}\) scale fundamental gap lower bound.

In their celebrated work, B. Andrews and J. Clutterbuck proved the fundamental gap (the difference between the first two eigenvalues) conjecture for convex domains in the Euclidean space and conjectured similar results holds for spaces with constant sectional curvature. We prove the conjecture for the sphere. Namely wh…

2016-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Negative curvature restricts the gap between the first and second eigenvalues of convex domains.

problem The fundamental gap of convex domains is limited by negative curvature.
method Adapted from Bourni et. al. (2022) for Riemannian manifolds with negative sectional curvature.
result The product of the fundamental gap and the square of the diameter can be arbitrarily small in domains with negative curvature.

We prove the Fundamental Gap Conjecture, which states that the difference between the first two Dirichlet eigenvalues (the spectral gap) of a Schrödinger operator with convex potential and Dirichlet boundary data on a convex domain is bounded below by the spectral gap on an interval of the same diameter with zero poten…

2010-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proves Simon's third gap conjecture for minimal surfaces in spheres.

problem Investigating the third gap problem in Simon's conjecture for minimal surfaces in unit spheres.
method Developed refined third-order Simons-type integral identities and established new lower bounds for curvature terms.
result Obtained positive gap results for the squared norm of the second fundamental form throughout the interval \(\left[\frac{5}{3},\frac{9}{5} ight]\).

Motivated by an example of Shih, we compute the fundamental gap of a family of convex domains in the hyperbolic plane H2\mathbb H^2, showing that for some of them λ2λ1<3π2D2λ_2 - λ_1 < \frac{3π^2}{D^2}, where DD is the diameter of the domain and λ1λ_1, λ2λ_2 are the first and second Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplace operat…

2019-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The study provides energy estimates for Willmore surfaces and derives a gap statement.

problem Analyzing the tracefree curvature of Willmore surfaces.
method Proves ε-regularity result for tracefree curvature with bounded second fundamental form.
result Derives a gap statement for surfaces of the specified type.

Study concavity of solutions to elliptic equations under conformal deformations.

problem Establish concavity estimates for the principle eigenfunction of weighted Schrödinger operators.
method Analyzing the Dirichlet problem for the weighted Schrödinger operator \[-Δu + Vu = λρu\] with conformal connections.
result Partial resolution of Nguyen's conjecture on fundamental gap of horoconvex domains and power convexity estimate for solutions in spherical geometry.

For an immersed Lagrangian submanifold, let Aˇ\check{A} be the Lagrangian trace-free second fundamental form. In this note we consider the equation T=0\nabla^*T=0 on Lagrangian surfaces immersed in C2\mathbb{C}^2, where T=2(Aˇω)T=-2\nabla^*(\check{A}\lrcornerω), and we prove a gap theorem for the Whitney sphere as a solution …

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates the mass gap for domains with integral Ricci curvature bounds.

problem Estimating the mass gap for domains with specific curvature conditions.
method Proving domains are John domains to estimate the first nonzero Neumann eigenvalue.
result Fundamental gap estimates for domains with integral Ricci curvature bounds.

The paper proves gap results for self-shrinkers in rr-mean curvature flow.

problem Understanding the gap in properties of self-shrinkers in rr-mean curvature flow.
method Proving gap results using a modified second fundamental form and a differential operator.
result Proper self-shrinkers are parabolic for a certain second-order differential operator.

New analysis shows a gap between Gaussian RKHS and neural networks on unbounded domains.

problem Understanding the function space bias of neural networks compared to Gaussian RKHS.
method Infinite-center asymptotic analysis of neural network Banach space and Gaussian RKHS on unbounded domains.
result Certain functions in Gaussian RKHS have infinite norm in neural network Banach space on unbounded domains.

Crowdsourcing platforms provide marketplaces where task requesters can pay to get labels on their data. Such markets have emerged recently as popular venues for collecting annotations that are crucial in training machine learning models in various applications. However, as jobs are tedious and payments are low, errors …

2016-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

In this note, we give a new and simple proof of a result in {\cite{DX1}} which states that any smooth complete self-shrinker in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with second fundamental form of constant length must be a generalized cylinder Sk×R2k\mathbb{S}^k \times \mathbb{R}^{2-k} for some k2k\leq2. Moreover, we prove a gap theorem for smo…

2014-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Stable commutator length scl_G(g) of an element g in a group G is an invariant for group elements sensitive to the geometry and dynamics of G. For any group G acting on a tree, we prove a sharp bound scl_G(g)>=1/2 for any g acting without fixed points, provided that the stabilizer of each edge is relatively torsion-fre…

2019-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We extend to higher codimension earlier characterization of the equatorial disk and the critical catenoid by a pinching condition on the length of their second fundamental form among free boundary minimal surfaces in the three dimensional Euclidean ball due to L. Ambrozio and I. Nunes.

2018-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study establishes monodromy equivalence for Lamé-type equations and constructs cone spherical metrics.

problem Investigating monodromy equivalence and finite-gap structures of Lamé-type equations.
method Analyzing finite-gap structures and constructing cone spherical metrics.
result Established monodromy equivalence between classical and generalized Lamé-type equations, derived finite-gap structures, and constructed cone spherical metrics.

These are expanded notes of a course given in Grenoble in june 2004. After a brief description of the harmonic map proof of Margulis' superrigidity and arithmeticity theorems, it is shown how the method might generalize to fundamental groups of simplicial complexes whose links have large enough nonlinear spectral gaps,…

2006-12-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In part I it was shown that for each k>0 the generalized Sato-Levine invariant detects a gap between k-quasi-isotopy of link and peripheral structure preserving isomorphism of the finest quotient G_k of its fundamental group, `functorially' invariant under k-quasi-isotopy. Here we show that Cochran's derived invariant …

2002-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We study λλ-hypersurfaces that are critical points of a Gaussian weighted area functional Σex24dA\int_Σ e^{-\frac{|x|^2}{4}}dA for compact variations that preserve weighted volume. First, we prove various gap and rigidity theorems for complete λλ-hypersurfaces in terms of the norm of the second fundamental form A|A|. Sec…

2014-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning's predictive power is limited by sample size, as shown by the Limits-to-Learning Gap.

problem The limitations of machine learning in approximating true data-generating processes.
method Characterization of a universal lower bound (LLG) quantifying the discrepancy between empirical fit and population benchmark.
result Standard ML approaches can substantially understate true predictability in financial data.

The study classifies complete self-shrinkers in Euclidean space.

problem Classifying complete self-shrinkers in Euclidean space.
method Proving the isometry of complete self-shrinkers under specific conditions.
result Complete self-shrinkers are isometric to Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, Sn(n)S^{n}(\sqrt{n}), or Sk(k)imesRnkS^k (\sqrt{k}) imes\mathbb{R}^{n-k}, 1kn11\leq k\leq n-1.

Paper addresses eigenvector perturbation in small eigen-gap scenarios.

problem Fine-grained behavior of eigenvectors in the presence of small eigen-gaps.
method Develops de-biased estimators for linear functions of an unknown eigenvector.
result Achieves minimax lower bounds for a family of scenarios, even with small eigen-gaps.

Open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature have virtually abelian fundamental groups if they escape from bounded balls at a small rate.

problem Understanding the fundamental groups of open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
method Analyzing the escape rate of minimal geodesic loops and relating it to the fundamental group's properties.
result If an open manifold has a small escape rate, its fundamental group is virtually abelian.