On the second Dirichlet eigenvalue of some nonlinear anisotropic elliptic operators.

Let Ω be a bounded open set of R n , n ≥ 2. In this paper we mainly study some properties of the second Dirichlet eigenvalue λ 2 (p , Ω) of the anisotropic p -Laplacian − Q p u : = − div (F p − 1 (∇ u) F ξ (∇ u)) , where F is a suitable smooth norm of R n and p ∈ ] 1 , + ∞ [. We provide a lower bound of λ 2 (p , Ω) among bounded open sets of given measure, showing the validity of a Hong-Krahn-Szego type inequality. Furthermore, we investigate the limit problem as p → + ∞. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]