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

Abstract

We consider Lane-Emden ground states with polytropic index $0\le q-1\le 1$, that is, minimizers of the Dirichlet integral among $L^q$-normalized functions. Our main result is a sharp lower bound on the $L^2$-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 $\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^d$, without assuming convexity.