On the principal eigenvalue for compound Poisson processes

Abstract

We investigate the explicit expression for the principal eigenvalue $\lambda_{1}^{X}(D)$ for a large class of compound Poisson processes $X$ on a bounded open set $D$ by examining its spectral heat content. When the jump density of the compound Poisson process is radially symmetric and strictly decreasing, we demonstrate that balls are the unique minimizers for $\lambda_{1}^{X}(D)$ among all sets with equal Lebesgue measure. Furthermore, we show that this uniqueness fails if the jump density is not strictly decreasing.