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Monotonicity in the central dimension of the Pleijel upper-bound constant for H-type groups

Show that for every H-type group G ≅ R^{2n}_x × R^m_t, the explicit Pleijel upper-bound constant γ_{n,m} = (Sobolev_{n,m})^{-Q/2} · W_{n,m}^{-1}, with Q = 2n + 2m, is a decreasing function of m for each fixed n ≥ 1. Here W_{n,m} is the Weyl constant with c_{n,m} = ∑_{k≥0} binomial(k+n−1,k)/(2k+n)^{n+m}, and Sobolev_{n,m} is Yang’s sharp L^2-Sobolev constant for H-type groups. Establish γ_{n,m} ≤ γ_{n,m−1} for all integers n ≥ 1 and m ≥ 2 without resorting to truncations of c_{n,m}.

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Background

The paper derives an explicit upper bound γ{n,m} for the Pleijel constant on H-type groups using Yang’s sharp L2-Sobolev inequality and a computed Weyl constant expressed via a convergent series c{n,m}. The authors prove that γ{n,m} decreases with n but only obtain monotonicity in m for a truncated bound \bar{γ}{n,m} that uses a first-term lower bound on c_{n,m}.

Numerical evidence suggests that the exact γ_{n,m} also decreases with m uniformly in n, but the authors could not adapt their argument due to a term-by-term quotient that lacks a lower bound. Establishing the full monotonicity would strengthen their results and potentially reduce manual verification of exceptional cases.

References

On the other hand, although the numerics (see appendix) appear to support the hypothesis {n, m} also decreases with respect to m uniform in n, it is not clear how to generalise the previous proof since the analogue of (kth-term-quotient), that is the quotient of the k-th term in c_{n, m} and c_{n, m-1} respectively, is 1/(2k+n) which is not bounded below.

A note on the Pleijel theorem for $H$-type groups (2510.19381 - Qiu, 22 Oct 2025) in Section 2 (Proof of main result)