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On domain monotonicity of Neumann eigenvalues of convex domains

Spectral Theory 2025-06-10 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Inspired by a recent result of Funano's, we provide a sharp quantitative comparison result between the first nontrivial eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian on bounded convex domains Ω1Ω2\Omega_{1} \subset \Omega_{2} in any dimension dd greater than or equal to two, recovering domain monotonicity up to an explicit multiplicative factor. We provide upper and lower bounds for such multiplicative factors for higher-order eigenvalues, and study their behaviour with respect to the dimension and order. We further consider different scenarios where convexity is no longer imposed. In a final section we formulate some related open problems.

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@article{arxiv.2307.06593,
  title  = {On domain monotonicity of Neumann eigenvalues of convex domains},
  author = {Pedro Freitas and James B. Kennedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06593},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted for publication in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc