Dirichlet eigenfunctions with nonzero mean value
Analysis of PDEs
2025-03-18 v3 Spectral Theory
Abstract
We consider Laplacian eigenfunctions on a domain . Under Neumann boundary conditions, the first eigenfunction is constant and the others have mean value 0. The situation is different for Dirichlet boundary conditions: on `generic' domains, one would expect that every eigenfunction has nonzero mean value. The other extreme is the ball in , where among the first eigenfunctions only have a mean value different from zero. We prove that this rate is sharp in \textit{any} smooth domain, up to a logarithmic factor: in any smooth domain~, among the first Dirichlet eigenfunctions at least have a nonzero mean.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2312.14122,
title = {Dirichlet eigenfunctions with nonzero mean value},
author = {Stefan Steinerberger and Raghavendra Venkatraman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14122},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
version 2, strenghtened result