Generalized tight p-frames and spectral bounds for Laplace-like operators

摘要

We prove sharp upper bounds for sums of eigenvalues (and other spectral functionals) of Laplace-like operators, including bi-Laplacians and fractional Laplacians. We show that among linear images of a highly symmetric domain, our spectral functionals are maximal on the original domain. We exploit the symmetries of the domain, and the operator, avoiding the necessity of finding good test functions for variational problems. This is especially important for fractional Laplacians, since exact solutions are not even known on intervals, making it hard to find good test functions.