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The goal of the paper is to sharpen and generalise bounds involving Cheeger's isoperimetric constant h and the first eigenvalue λ 1 of the Laplacian. A celebrated lower bound of λ 1 in terms of h, λ 1 ≥ h 2 / 4 , was proved by Cheeger in 1970 for smooth Riemannian manifolds. An upper bound on λ 1 in terms of h was established by Buser in 1982 (with dimensional constants) and improved (to a dimension-free estimate) by Ledoux in 2004 for smooth Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. The goal of the paper is twofold. Fi