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A Cheeger-type inequality for the drift Laplacian with Wentzell-type boundary condition

arXiv:2503.16093 · doi:10.1007/s00526-026-03310-8

Abstract

We prove lower bounds for the first non-trivial eigenvalue of the drift Laplacian on manifolds with Wentzell-type boundary condition in terms of some Cheeger-type constants for bulk-boundary interactions. Our results are in the spirit of Cheeger's classical inequality.