%0 Journal Article %T Eigenvalue pinching on convex domains in space forms %A E. Aubry %A J. Bertrand %A B. Colbois %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %X In this paper, we show that the convex domains of the hyperbolic space which are almost extremal for the Faber-Krahn or the Payne-Polya-Weinberger inequalities are close to geodesic balls. Our proof is also valid in other space forms and allows us to recover known results in Euclidean space and on the sphere. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604576v1