A sharp upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian of compact hypersurfaces in rank-1 symmetric spaces
Abstract
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Let $M$ be a closed hypersurface in a simply connected rank-1 symmetric space $\olm$. In this paper, we give an upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian of $M$ in terms of the Ricci curvature of $\olm$ and the square of the length of the second fundamental form of the geodesic spheres with center at the center-of-mass of $M$.
9 pages
9 pages