We give a new estimate on the lower bound of the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of a compact Riemannian manifold with negative lower bound of Ricci curvature and provide a solution for a conjecture of H. C. Yang. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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