van den Berg's localization conjecture for first eigenfunctions of convex domains

Let ΩRn\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n be a bounded convex domain, and let uu be a first Dirichlet eigenfunction of Ω\Omega. Write diam(Ω)\operatorname{diam}(\Omega) for its diameter and inrad(Ω)\operatorname{inrad}(\Omega) for its inner radius. van den Berg's conjecture. There exists a constant cn>0c_n>0, depending only on the dimension nn, such that

uL2(Ω)cn(diam(Ω)/inrad(Ω))1/6inrad(Ω)n/2uL(Ω).\lVert u\rVert_{L^{2}(\Omega)} \geq c_n \left(\operatorname{diam}(\Omega)/\operatorname{inrad}(\Omega)\right)^{1/6}\operatorname{inrad}(\Omega)^{n/2}\lVert u\rVert_{L^{\infty}(\Omega)}.

This conjecture quantifies the expected spreading of the first eigenfunction in a convex domain whose diameter is large relative to its inner radius. The two-dimensional case has been established, while the conjecture in higher dimensions remains open.

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Thomas Beck, “Localization of the first eigenfunction of a convex domain”, arXiv:1910.04905 (2019).

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