Lower bounds for Orlicz eigenvalues

Abstract

In this article we consider the following weighted nonlinear eigenvalue problem for the \begin{document}$ g- $\end{document}Laplacian

\begin{document}$ -{\text{ div}}\left( g(|\nabla u|)\frac{\nabla u}{|\nabla u|}\right) = \lambda w(x) h(|u|)\frac{u}{|u|} \quad \text{ in }\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n, n\geq 1 $\end{document}

with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here \begin{document}$ w $\end{document} is a suitable weight and \begin{document}$ g = G' $\end{document} and \begin{document}$ h = H' $\end{document} are appropriated Young functions satisfying the so called \begin{document}$ \Delta' $\end{document} condition, which includes for instance logarithmic perturbation of powers and different power behaviors near zero and infinity. We prove several properties on its spectrum, being our main goal to obtain lower bounds of eigenvalues in terms of \begin{document}$ G $\end{document}, \begin{document}$ H $\end{document}, \begin{document}$ w $\end{document} and the normalization \begin{document}$ \mu $\end{document} of the corresponding eigenfunctions.

We introduce some new strategies to obtain results that generalize several inequalities from the literature of \begin{document}$ p- $\end{document}Laplacian type eigenvalues.