On the fundamental eigenvalue gap of Sturm–Liouville operators
摘要
We use methods of direct optimization as in El Allali and Harrell (Proc Am Math Soc 150:57–587, 2022) to characterize the minimizers of the fundamental gap of Sturm–Liouville operators on an interval, under the constraint that the potential is of single-well form and that the weight function is of single-barrier form, and under similar constraints expressed in terms of convexity.