On the fundamental tone of immersions and submersions

Abstract

In this paper we obtain lower bound estimates of the spectrum of Laplace-Beltrami operator on complete submanifolds with bounded mean curvature, whose ambient space admits a Riemannian submersion over a Riemannian manifold with negative sectional curvature. Our main theorem generalizes many previous known estimates and applies for both immersions and submersions.