English

Nodal counts for the Robin problem on Lipschitz domains

Spectral Theory 2025-04-07 v2

Abstract

We consider the Courant-sharp eigenvalues of the Robin Laplacian for bounded, connected, open sets in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, n2n \geq 2, with Lipschitz boundary. We prove Pleijel's theorem which implies that there are only finitely many Courant-sharp eigenvalues in this setting as well as an improved version of Pleijel's theorem, extending previously known results that required more regularity of the boundary. In addition, we obtain an upper bound for the number of Courant-sharp Robin eigenvalues of a bounded, connected, convex, open set in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with C2C^2 boundary that is explicit in terms of the geometric quantities of the set and the norm sup of the negative part of the Robin parameter.

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@article{arxiv.2411.11427,
  title  = {Nodal counts for the Robin problem on Lipschitz domains},
  author = {Katie Gittins and Asma Hassannezhad and Corentin Léna and David Sher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11427},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

37 pages, accepted for publication in Pure and Applied Functional Analysis

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