On principal frequencies and inradius in convex sets

Abstract

We generalize to the case of the $p-$Laplacian an old result by Hersch and Protter. Namely, we show that it is possible to estimate from below the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet $p-$Laplacian of a convex set in terms of its inradius. We also prove a lower bound in terms of isoperimetric ratios and we briefly discuss the more general case of Poincaré-Sobolev embedding constants. Eventually, we highlight an open problem.

20 pages, 3 figures