Problems / analysis
analysis / Spectral geometry
Strict Neumann Pólya inequality on simply connected planar Lipschitz domains
Main theorem: for every bounded simply connected planar Lipschitz domain Ω, ∣Ω∣μj(Ω)<4πj for all j≥1, with 0=μ0<μ1≤⋯ counted with multiplicity; equivalently NN(E)>∣Ω∣E/(4π) for E>0, where NN counts μj<E including μ0. It contains the convex planar case, for which Filonov (CPAM 2025) had only a weaker constant, and the disk case of Filonov, Levitin, Polterovich and Sher (2023). Multiply connected domains, non-Lipschitz domains and higher dimensions remain open. The manuscript is not yet on arXiv; a draft is in the registered snapshot. The companion strict Dirichlet result is a separate entry.