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We consider the eigenvalues problem for the the fractional Laplacian in a bounded domain Omega with Dirichlet boundary condition. A recent result by Fall, Ghimenti, Micheletti and Pistoia (CVPDE (2023)) states that under generic small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Marco Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti , Angela Pistoia

We study the Robin eigenvalue problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Riemannian manifolds. Our first result is a comparison theorem for the second Robin eigenvalue on geodesic balls in manifolds whose sectional curvatures are bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang , Haotian Wu

The third eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian on a simply-connected planar domain of given area is bounded above by the third eigenvalue of a disjoint union of two disks, provided the Robin parameter lies in a certain range and is scaled in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Alexandre Girouard , Richard S. Laugesen

In this paper, by mainly using the rearrangement technique and suitably constructing trial functions, under the constraint of fixed weighted volume, we can successfully obtain several isoperimetric inequalities for the first and the second…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ruifeng Chen , Jing Mao

Given an open bounded subset $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, which is convex and satisfies an interior sphere condition, we consider the pde $-\Delta_{\infty} u = 1$ in $\Omega$, subject to the homogeneous boundary condition $u = 0$ on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Graziano Crasta , Ilaria Fragala'

We consider the following eigenvalue optimization in the composite membrane problem with fractional Laplacian: given a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $\alpha>0$ and $0<A<|\Omega|$, find a subset $D\subset \Omega$ of area $A$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-23 María del Mar González , Ki-Ahm Lee , Taehun Lee

We prove existence results for optimization problems for the $k$th Laplace eigenvalue on closed Riemannian manifolds of dimension $m \geq 3$, depending on the choice of normalization. One such normalization leads to eigenvalue optimization…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Denis Vinokurov

The second-largest eigenvalue and second-smallest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph are measures of its connectivity. These eigenvalues can be used to analyze the robustness, resilience, and synchronizability of networks, and are related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Aida Abiad , Boris Brimkov , Xavier Martinez-Rivera , O Suil , Jingmei Zhang

The purpose of the present paper is to establish appropriate cut-off resolvent estimates for the Dirichlet Laplacian on exterior domains. The geometrical assumptions on domains are rather general, for example, non-trapping condition is not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Vladimir Georgiev , Tokio Matsuyama

We consider the problem of minimizing the second conformal eigenvalue of the conformal Laplacian in a conformal class of metrics with renormalized volume. We prove, in dimensions $n\in\left\{3,\dotsc,10\right\}$, that a minimizer for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Bruno Premoselli , Jérôme Vétois

We propose an analytic perturbative scheme for determining the eigenvalues of the Helmholtz equation, $(\nabla^2 + k^2) \psi = 0$, in three dimensions with an arbitrary boundary where $\psi$ satisfies either the Dirichlet boundary condition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-10 S. Panda , G. Hazra

In this work we prove that given an open bounded set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with a $C^2$ boundary, there exists $\epsilon := \epsilon(\Omega)$ small enough such that for all $0 < \delta < \epsilon$ the maximum of $\{\lambda_1(\Omega…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Manuel Dias

We provide an answer to a question raised by Levine and Weinberger in their $1986$ paper concerning the difference between Dirichlet and Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. More precisely, we show…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Pedro Freitas , Miguel Gama

In 1990, P\"utter shown that the nodal line of any second eigenfunction of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a planar bounded simply connected domain $\Omega$ intersects the boundary $\partial\Omega$ provided $\Omega$ has the circular symmetry. By…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Vladimir Bobkov

In this paper, we prove some isoperimetric bounds for lower order eigenvalues of the Wentzell-Laplace operator on bounded domains of a Euclidean space or a Hadamard manifold, of the Laplacian on closed hypersurfaces of a Euclidean space or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Feng Du , Jing Mao , Qiao-Ling Wang , Chang-Yu Xia

We prove that the round metric on the sphere has the largest first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator among all metrics that are larger than it. As a corollary, this gives an alternative proof of an extremality result for scalar curvature due…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Herzlich

We consider the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1(\Omega,\sigma)$ of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions on a compact Riemannian manifold $\Omega$ with smooth boundary, $\sigma\in\bf R$ being the Robin boundary parameter. When $\sigma>0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Alessandro Savo

We study the eigenvalue problem for the Dirichlet Laplacian in bounded simply connected plane domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{C}$ using conformal transformations of the original problem to the weighted eigenvalue problem for the Dirichlet…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Victor Burenkov , Vladimir Gol'dshtein , Alexander Ukhlov

We consider a shape optimization problem related to the persistence threshold for a biological species, the unknown shape corresponding to the zone of the habitat which is favorable to the population. Analytically, this translates in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Lorenzo Ferreri , Gianmaria Verzini