We provide precise estimates of the Poincar&e
acute; constants firstly for scalar functions and secondly for solenoidal (i.e. divergence free) vector fields (in both cases with vanishing Dirichlet tr
aces on the boundary) on 2d-annuli by the use of the first eigenvalues of the scalar Lapl
acian and the Stokes operator, respectively. In our non-dimensional setting e
ach annulus
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aces/wiley" xmlns:wiley="http://www.wiley.com/namespaces/wiley/wiley" xmlns:cr="urn://wiley-online-library/content/render" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">A/2+1. Additionally, corresponding problems on domains
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zamm201500299-bib-0007" rel="references:#zamm201500299-bib-0007" class="link__reference js-link__reference" title="Link to bibliographic citation">7], are investigated - for comparison but also to provide limits for
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acian on
aces/wiley" xmlns:wiley="http://www.wiley.com/namespaces/wiley/wiley" xmlns:cr="urn://wiley-online-library/content/render" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">Ωσ* with vanishing Dirichlet tr
aces on
aces/wiley" xmlns:wiley="http://www.wiley.com/namespaces/wiley/wiley" xmlns:cr="urn://wiley-online-library/content/render" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">∂Ωσ* is used to show that for
aces/wiley" xmlns:wiley="http://www.wiley.com/namespaces/wiley/wiley" xmlns:cr="urn://wiley-online-library/content/render" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">σace width="0.16em">ace>→ace width="0.16em">ace>0 the first eigenvalue here tends to the first eigenvalue of the corresponding problem on the open unit circle. On the other hand, we take advantage of the so-called small-gap limit for
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