Upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a
hypersurface bounding a domain in some ambient Riemannian manifold are given in
terms of the isoperimetric ratio of the domain. These results are applied to
the extrinsic geometry of isometric embeddings.
We give upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the La-place-Beltrami operator of
a compact $m$-dimensional submanifold $M$ of $\R^{m+p}$. Besides the dimension
and the volume of the submanifold and the order of the eigenvalue, these bounds
depend on either the maximal number of intersection points of $M$ with a
$p$-plane in a generic position (transverse to $M$), or an invariant which
measures the concentration of the volume of $M$ in $\R^{m+p}$. These bounds are
asymptotically optimal in the sense of the Weyl law.
We give upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the La-place-Beltrami operator of
a compact $m$-dimensional submanifold $M$ of $\R^{m+p}$. Besides the dimension
and the volume of the submanifold and the order of the eigenvalue, these bounds
depend on either the maximal number of intersection points of $M$ with a
$p$-plane in a generic position (transverse to $M$), or an invariant which
measures the concentration of the volume of $M$ in $\R^{m+p}$. These bounds are
asymptotically optimal in the sense of the Weyl law.