Tr'i Minh Le

Impossibility of a nontrivial Brunn--Minkowski inequality for higher Dirichlet eigenvalue

Let $\lambda_j(K)$ be the $j$th Dirichlet eigenvalue of a convex body $K$. It is well known that $\lambda_1$ satisfies a Brunn--Minkowski inequality: $K \mapsto \lambda_1(K)^{-1/2}$ is concave on the family of convex bodies. We show that no analogous statement holds for higher eigenvalues. More precisely, for any $j \g...