On the first Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue of regular Polygons
Abstract
The Faber-Krahn inequality in states that among all open bounded sets of given area the disk minimizes the first Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue. There are numerical evidences that for all the first Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue of the regular -gon is greater than the one of the regular -gon of same area. This natural property is also suggested by the fact that the shape of regular polygons becomes more and more "rounded" as increases and, among sets of given area, disk minimize the eigenvalue. Aiming to settle such a conjecture, in this work we investigate possible ways to estimate the difference between eigenvalues of regular -gons and -gons.
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@article{arxiv.1403.6709,
title = {On the first Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue of regular Polygons},
author = {Carlo Nitsch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6709},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
This paper has been written for possible publication in a special volume dedicated to the conference "Third Italian-Japanese Workshop on Geometric Properties for Parabolic and Elliptic PDE's", organized in Tokyo in August 2013