Spectral properties for critical metrics of the volume functional

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In this article, we investigate spectral properties of compact $V$-static manifolds, namely, compact manifolds with boundary whose metrics are critical points of the volume functional under a scalar curvature constraint. We derive sharp estimates for the first Steklov eigenvalue and the entire fourth-order Steklov spectrum. We further obtain a Lichnerowicz-type lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the drifted Laplacian naturally associated with the $V$-static potential. In the corresponding equality cases, we obtain rigidity results characterizing the Euclidean ball and the hemisphere.