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Isoperimetric Bounds for Weighted Steklov Eigenvalues with Radial Weights

Analysis of PDEs 2026-04-22 v2

Abstract

We study the following class of Steklov eigenvalue problems: (wu)=0in Ω,uν=γvuon Ω, \nabla \cdot \bigl( w \nabla u \bigr) = 0 \quad \text{in } \Omega, \qquad \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} = \gamma v u \quad \text{on } \partial \Omega, where ww and vv are prescribed positive radial functions, Ω\Omega is a Lipschitz domain in RN\mathbb{R}^N with N2N \geq 2 and ν\nu denotes its outward unit normal. Extending classical results in the unweighted case due to Weinstock, the first author, and others, we establish isoperimetric inequalities for low-order eigenvalues under suitable symmetry assumptions on the domain. In the first part, we consider the case w(x)=xαw(x) = |x|^{\alpha} and v(x)=xβαv(x) = |x|^{\beta-\alpha}, where the parameters α,βR\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{R} satisfy appropriate constraints. Our analysis relies on an explicit computation of the spectrum in the radial case, variational principles, and a family of weighted isoperimetric inequalities with ``double density''. In the second part, we address the case v1v \equiv 1 and w(x)=W(x)w(x) = W(|x|), where WW is a non-decreasing, log-convex function. In this setting, the proof relies, among other tools, on a new weighted isoperimetric inequality, which may be of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.2510.12631,
  title  = {Isoperimetric Bounds for Weighted Steklov Eigenvalues with Radial Weights},
  author = {Friedemann Brock and Francesco Chiacchio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.12631},
  year   = {2026}
}

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