A sharp fixed-volume product inequality for the first $N$ nonzero Steklov eigenvalues

Abstract

We prove a sharp fixed-volume product inequality for the first $N$ nonzero Steklov eigenvalues of bounded Lipschitz domains in $\mathbb R^N$. More precisely, if $N\ge2$ and $Ω\subset\mathbb R^N$ is a bounded Lipschitz domain, then $$ \prod_{j=1}^N σ_j(Ω)\le \frac{ω_N}{|Ω|}, $$ where $0=σ_0(Ω)<σ_1(Ω)\leσ_2(Ω)\le\cdots$ are the Steklov eigenvalues of $Ω$, and $ω_N$ denotes the volume of the unit ball in $\mathbb R^N$. This extends the convex-domain theorem of Henrot, Philippin, and Safoui to arbitrary bounded Lipschitz domains, and in particular settles the remaining higher-dimensional case of a problem posed by Henrot.