Lott's lower-bound conjecture for Hodge-Laplacian eigenvalues

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For given m∈Nm \in \mathop{\mathrm{{\Bbb N}}}\nolimits, κ∈R\kappa \in \mathop{\mathrm{{\Bbb R}}}\nolimits and v,D>0v,D>0, consider connected oriented closed Riemannian manifolds (Mm,g)(M^m,g) of dimension mm with sectional curvature Kg≥κK_g\geq\kappa, volume vol⁡(M,g)≥v\operatorname{vol}(M,g)\geq v, and diameter diam⁡(M,g)≤D\operatorname{diam}(M,g)\leq D. Lott's conjecture. There exists a positive constant C(m,κ,v,D)>0C(m,\kappa,v,D)>0, depending only on mm, κ\kappa, vv, and DD, such that every such manifold satisfies

λ1(p)(M,g)≥C(m,κ,v,D)>0\lambda^{(p)}_1(M,g)\geq C(m,\kappa,v,D)>0

for all p=0,1,…,mp=0,1,\dots,m. This is an open problem for sectional curvature bounded below; the paper notes that it would follow from the still-unpublished Lipschitz stability theorem for Alexandrov spaces, while existing results establish only more restricted cases.

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Colette Anné and Junya Takahashi, “Small eigenvalues of the Hodge-Laplacian with sectional curvature bounded below”, arXiv:2506.11579 (2025).

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