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We study the existence of Neumann eigenfunctions which do not change sign on the boundary of some special domains. We show that eigenfunctions which are strictly positive on the boundary exist on regular polygons with at least 5 sides,…

We prove sharp upper bounds for the first and second non-trivial eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian in two classes of domains: parallelograms and domains of constant width. This gives in particular a new proof of an isoperimetric…

We consider a compact Riemannian manifold M endowed with a potential 1-form A and study the magnetic Laplacian associated with those data (with Neumann magnetic boundary condition if the bpoundary of M is not empty). We first establish a…

We study the ground state energy of the Neumann magnetic Laplacian on planar domains. For a constant magnetic field we consider the question whether, under an assumption of fixed area, the disc maximizes this eigenvalue. More generally, we…

We prove that the second nontrivial Neumann eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^n \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is maximized by the union of two disjoint, equal, geodesic balls among all subsets of…

We prove that the isoperimetric inequality due to Hersch-Payne-Schiffer for the n-th nonzero Steklov eigenvalue of a bounded simply-connected planar domain is sharp for all n=1,2,... The equality is attained in the limit by a sequence of…

The second eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian is shown to be maximal for the ball among domains of fixed volume, for negative values of the Robin parameter $\alpha$ in the regime connecting the first nontrivial Neumann and Steklov…

Let $\Omega$ be a piecewise-smooth, bounded convex domain in $\R^2$ and consider $L^2$-normalized Neumann eigenfunctions $\phi_{\lambda}$ with eigenvalue $\lambda^2$. Our main result is a small-scale {\em non-concentration} estimate: We…

We study the Laplacian with zero magnetic field acting on complex functions of a planar domain $\Omega$, with magnetic Neumann boundary conditions. If $\Omega$ is simply connected then the spectrum reduces to the spectrum of the usual…

In this paper, we prove that the second eigenfunctions of the $p$-Laplacian, $p>1$, are not radial on the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^N,$ for any $N\ge 2.$ Our proof relies on the variational characterization of the second eigenvalue and a…

We prove various estimates for the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded domain in two dimensions. When the magnetic field is constant, we give lower and upper bounds in terms of geometric quantities of the…

In this paper we study optimization problems for Neumann eigenvalues $\mu_k$ among convex domains with a constraint on the diameter or the perimeter. We work mainly in the plane, though some results are stated in higher dimension. We study…

We present examples of bounded planar domains with one single hole for which the nodal line of a second Dirichlet eigenfunction is closed and does not touch the boundary. This shows that Payne's nodal line conjecture can at most hold for…

We consider the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Laplacian with zero magnetic field on simply connected compact surfaces and we establish isoperimetric inequalities and upper bounds in terms of a bound on the gaussian curvature. As a…

In this paper we deal with spectral optimization for the Robin Laplacian on a family of planar domains admitting parallel coordinates, namely a fixed-width strip built over a smooth closed curve and the exterior of a convex set with a…

We prove that the geodesic disks are the unique maximisers of the first non-trivial Neumann eigenvalue among all simply connected domains of the sphere $\mathbb S^2$ with fixed area.

This paper aims to show that, in the limit of strong magnetic fields, the optimal domains for eigenvalues of magnetic Laplacians tend to exhibit symmetry. We establish several asymptotic bounds on magnetic eigenvalues to support this…

We prove the existence of an open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{S}^2$ for which the first positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian with Neumann boundary condition exceeds that of the geodesic disk having the same area. This example holds for large…

The celebrated conjecture by Payne, P\'{o}lya and Weinberger (1956) states that for the fixed membrane problem, the ratio of the first two eigenvalues, $\lambda_2/\lambda_1$, is maximized by a disk. A more general dimensional version of…

We prove that the $(k+d)$-th Neumann eigenvalue of the biharmonic operator on a bounded connected $d$-dimensional $(d\ge2)$ Lipschitz domain is not larger than its $k$-th Dirichlet eigenvalue for all $k\in\mathbb{N}$. For a special class of…