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The mixed principal eigenvalue of $p\,$-Laplacian (equivalently, the optimal constant of weighted Hardy inequality in $L^p$ space) is studied in this paper. Several variational formulas for the eigenvalue are presented. As applications of the formulas, a criterion for the positivity of the eigenvalue is obtained. Furthermore, an approximating procedure and some explicit estimates are presented case by case. An example is included to illustrate the power of the results of the paper., Comment: 25 pages, 2 figures in Front. Math. China 2015

This paper deals with the principal eigenvalue of discrete $p$-Laplacian on the set of nonnegative integers. Alternatively, it is studying the optimal constant of a class of weighted Hardy inequalities. The main goal is the quantitative estimates of the eigenvalue. The paper begins with the case having reflecting boundary at origin and absorbing boundary at infinity. Several variational formulas are presented in different formulation: the difference form, the single summation form and the double summation form. As their applications, some explicit lower and upper estimates, a criterion for positivity (which was known years ago), as well as an approximating procedure for the eigenvalue are obtained. Similarly, the dual case having absorbing boundary at origin and reflecting boundary at infinity is also studied. Two examples are presented at the end of Section 2 to illustrate the value of the investigation., Comment: Typos are corrected

This paper investigates the birth-death ("B-D" for short) process on tree with continuous time, emphasizing on estimating the principal eigenvalue (equivalently, the convergence rate) of the process with Dirichlet boundary at the unique root 0. Three kinds of variational formulas for the eigenvalue are presented. As an application, we obtain a criterion for positivity of the first eigenvalue for B-D processes on tree with one branch after some layer., Comment: 12pages