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We associate a sequence of variational eigenvalues to any Radon measure on a compact Riemannian manifold. For particular choices of measures, we recover the Laplace, Steklov and other classical eigenvalue problems. In the first part of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Alexandre Girouard , Mikhail Karpukhin , Jean Lagacé

Given a conformal action of a discrete group on a Riemann surface, we study the maximization of Laplace and Steklov eigenvalues within a conformal class, considering metrics invariant under the group action. We establish natural conditions…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Denis Vinokurov

Using methods in the spirit of deterministic homogenisation theory we obtain convergence of the Steklov eigenvalues of a sequence of domains in a Riemannian manifold to weighted Laplace eigenvalues of that manifold. The domains are obtained…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Alexandre Girouard , Jean Lagacé

This work deals with theoretical and numerical aspects related to the behavior of the Steklov-Lam\'e eigenvalues on variable domains. After establishing the eigenstructure for the disk, we prove that for a certain class of Lam\'e…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Beniamin Bogosel , Pedro R. S. Antunes

The second eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian is shown to be maximal for the disk among simply-connected planar domains of fixed area when the Robin parameter is scaled by perimeter in the form $\alpha/L(\Omega)$, and $\alpha$ lies between…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Pedro Freitas , Richard S. Laugesen

Recently, D. Bucur and M. Nahon used boundary homogenisation to show the remarkable flexibility of Steklov eigenvalues of planar domains. In the present paper we extend their result to higher dimensions and to arbitrary manifolds with…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Mikhail Karpukhin , Jean Lagacé

New isoperimetric inequalities for lower order eigenvalues of the Laplacian on closed hypersurfaces, of the biharmonic Steklov problems and of the Wentzell-Laplace on bounded domains in a Euclidean space are proven. Some open questions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Fuquan Fang , Changyu Xia

The classical Szego-Weinberger inequality states that among bounded planar domains of given area, the first nonzero Neumann eigenvalue is maximized by a disk. Recently, it was shown by Girouard, Nadirashvili and Polterovich that, for simply…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Guillaume Poliquin , Guillaume Roy-Fortin

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…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Alexandre Girouard , Iosif Polterovich

We obtain sharp upper bounds for the first two nonzero Steklov eigenvalues among bounded domains in Euclidean spaces of dimension $d \geq 7$ under a natural normalization involving volume and boundary measure. These bounds are derived from…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Denis Vinokurov

We discuss isoperimetric inequalities for the magnetic Laplacian on bounded domains of $\mathbb R^2$ endowed with an Aharonov-Bohm potential. When the flux of the potential around the pole is not an integer, the lowest eigenvalue for the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Bruno Colbois , Luigi Provenzano , Alessandro Savo

In this paper, we study the optimization of the first Laplacian eigenvalue on axisymmetric doubly connected domains under positive Robin boundary conditions. Under additional geometric constraints, we prove that spherical shells maximize…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Vincenzo Amato , Nunzia Gavitone , Francesca de Giovanni

We study a new link between the Steklov and Neumann eigenvalues of domains in Euclidean space. This is obtained through an homogenisation limit of the Steklov problem on a periodically perforated domain, converging to a family of eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Alexandre Girouard , Antoine Henrot , Jean Lagacé

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

We study the optimization of Steklov eigenvalues with respect to a boundary density function $\rho$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$. We investigate the minimization and maximization of $\lambda_k(\rho)$, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Chiu Yen Kao , Seyyed Abbas Mohammadi

We investigate how the lowest eigenvalue of a magnetic Laplacian depends on the geometry of a planar domain with a disk shaped hole, where the magnetic field is generated by a singular flux. Under Dirichlet boundary conditions on the inner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Mrityunjoy Ghosh , Ayman Kachmar

This paper studies the optimization of the lowest eigenvalue of the magnetic Steklov problem on planar domains. In the bounded domain setting and for magnetic fields of moderate strengths, we prove that among all simply-connected smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Ayman Kachmar , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We provide the estimates for the constant in the weighted Poincar\'e inequality for a special class of planar domains and weights. Based on this, we prove the lower bounds for the first non-zero eigenvalue $\mu_\rho$ of the Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Alexander Menovschikov

We give explicit isoperimetric upper bounds for all Steklov eigenvalues of a compact orientable surface with boundary, in terms of the genus, the length of the boundary, and the number of boundary components. Our estimates generalize a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-10 Alexandre Girouard , Iosif Polterovich

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…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Bruno Colbois , Alessandro Savo
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