A reverse quantitative isoperimetric type inequality for the Dirichlet Laplacian

Abstract

A stability result in terms of the perimeter is obtained for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian operator. In particular, we prove that, once we fix the dimension $n\geq2$, there exists a constant $c>0$, depending only on $n$, such that, for every $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ open, bounded, and convex set with volume equal to the volume of a ball $B$ with radius $1$, it holds that $\lambda\_1(\Omega)-\lambda\_1(B)\geq c(P(\Omega)-P(B))^2$, where $\lambda\_1(\cdot)$ denotes the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of a set and $P(\cdot)$ its perimeter. The heart of the present paper is a sharp estimate of the Fraenkel asymmetry in terms of the perimeter.