We study eigenvalues of the
poly-Laplacian of arbitrary order on a bounded domain in an n-dimensional
Euclidean space. We obtain a lower bound for these eigenvalues, significantly
improving on that of Levine and Protter. In particular, the result of Melas (2003) is
subsumed.
Keywords
eigenvalue problem, lower bound for eigenvalues,
poly-Laplacian with arbitrary order