Estimates for the higher order buckling eigenvalues in the unit sphere

Abstract

We consider the higher order buckling eigenvalues of the following Dirichlet poly-Laplacian in the unit sphere $(-\Delta)^p u=\Lambda (-\Delta) u$ with order $p(\geq2)$. We obtain universal bounds on the $(k+1)$th eigenvalue in terms of the first $k$th eigenvalues independent of the domains. In particular, for $p=2$, our result is sharp than estimates on eigenvalues of the buckling problem obtained by Wang and Xia.