Dual variational formulas for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue on half-line

The aim of the paper is to establish two dual variational formulas for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the second order elliptic operators on half-line. Some explicit bounds of the eigenvalue depending only on the coefficients of the operators are presented. Moreover, the corresponding problems in the discrete case and the higher-order eigenvalues in the continuous case are also studied.