We consider Lane–Emden ground states with polytropic index
0
≤
q
-
1
≤
1
0\leq q-1\leq 1
, that is, minimizers of the Dirichlet integral among
L
q
L^{q}
-normalized functions.
Our main result is a sharp lower bound on the
L
2
L^{2}
-norm of the normal derivative in terms of the energy, which implies a corresponding isoperimetric inequality.
Our bound holds for arbitrary bounded open Lipschitz sets
Ω
⊂
R
d
\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}
, without assuming convexity.