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The spectral gap to torsion problem for some non-convex domains

Analysis of PDEs 2021-02-10 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the following torsion problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u=1~&\mbox{in}\ \Omega,\\[1mm] u=0~&\mbox{on}\ \partial\Omega. \end{cases} \end{equation*} Let ΩR2\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2 be a bounded, convex domain and u0(x)u_0(x) be the solution of above problem with its maximum y0Ωy_0\in \Omega. Steinerberger proved that there are universal constants c1,c2>0c_1, c_2>0 satisfying \begin{equation*} \lambda_{\max}\left(D^2u_0(y_0)\right)\leq -c_1\mbox{exp}\left(-c_2\frac{\text{diam}(\Omega)}{\mbox{inrad}(\Omega)}\right). \end{equation*} And he proposed following open problem: "Does above result hold true on domains that are not convex but merely simply connected or perhaps only bounded? The proof uses convexity of the domain Ω\Omega in a very essential way and it is not clear to us whether the statement remains valid in other settings." Here by some new idea involving the computations on Green's function, we compute the spectral gap λmaxD2u(y0)\lambda_{\max}D^2u(y_0) for some non-convex smooth bounded domains, which gives a negative answer to above open problem. Also some extensions are given.

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@article{arxiv.2102.04900,
  title  = {The spectral gap to torsion problem for some non-convex domains},
  author = {Hua Chen and Peng Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04900},
  year   = {2021}
}

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