On the remainder term of the Berezin inequality on a convex domain

Abstract:

We study the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a convex domain in $\mathbb {R}^n$, with $n\geq 2$. In particular, we generalize and improve upper bounds for the Riesz means of order $\sigma \geq 3/2$ established in an article by Geisinger, Laptev and Weidl. This is achieved by refining estimates for a negative second term in the Berezin inequality. The obtained remainder term reflects the correct order of growth in the semi-classical limit and depends only on the measure of the boundary of the domain. We emphasize that such an improvement is for general $\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^n$ not possible and was previously known to hold only for planar convex domains satisfying certain geometric conditions.

As a corollary we obtain lower bounds for the individual eigenvalues $\lambda _k$, which for a certain range of $k$ improves the Li–Yau inequality for convex domains. However, for convex domains one can by using different methods obtain even stronger lower bounds for $\lambda _k$.