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We study fine P\'olya-Szeg\H{o} rearrangement inequalities into weighted intervals for Sobolev functions and functions of bounded variation defined on metric measure spaces supporting an isoperimetric inequality. We then specialize this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Francesco Nobili , Ivan Yuri Violo

We prove the existence of optimal metrics for a wide class of combinations of Laplace eigenvalues on closed orientable surfaces of any genus. The optimal metrics are explicitely related to Laplace minimal eigenmaps, defined as branched…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Romain Petrides

In this paper, we prove a sharp lower bound of the first (nonzero) eigenvalue of Finsler-Laplacian with the Neumann boundary condition. Equivalently, we prove an optimal anisotropic Poincar\'e inequality for convex domains, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Guofang Wang , Chao Xia

In this article, we study the mixed Steklov--Neumann eigenvalue problem on doubly connected domains. First, we show that among all doubly connected domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ of the form $B_{R_2}\setminus \overline{B_{R_1}}$, where $B_{R_1}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Sagar Basak , Gloria Paoli , Rossano Sannipoli , Sheela Verma

The eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on bounded, planar, convex domains with mixed boundary conditions is considered, where a Dirichlet boundary condition is imposed on a part of the boundary and a Neumann boundary condition on its…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Nausica Aldeghi , Jonathan Rohleder

In this paper we prove the existence of an optimal set for the minimization of the $k$-th variational eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian among $p$-quasi open sets of fixed measure included in a box of finite measure. An analogous existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Marco Degiovanni , Dario Mazzoleni

We establish lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a closed K\"ahler manifold in terms of dimension, diameter, and lower bounds of holomorphic sectional curvature and orthogonal Ricci curvature. On compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang

It has recently been conjectured by Bogosel, Henrot, and Michetti that the second positive eigenvalue of the Neumann Laplacian is maximized, among all planar convex domains of fixed perimeter, by the rectangle with one edge length equal to…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Jonathan Rohleder

We derive the equation of a free vibrating thin plate whose mass is concentrated at the boundary, namely a Steklov problem for the biharmonic operator. We provide Hadamard-type formulas for the shape derivatives of the corresponding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Davide Buoso , Luigi Provenzano

Given the Laplacian on a planar, convex domain with piecewise linear boundary subject to mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions, we provide a sufficient condition for its lowest eigenvalue to dominate the lowest eigenvalue of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Jonathan Rohleder

We prove that the second positive Neumann eigenvalue of a bounded simply-connected planar domain of a given area does not exceed the first positive Neumann eigenvalue on a disk of a twice smaller area. This estimate is sharp and attained by…

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

We generalize a classical inequality between the eigenvalues of the Laplacians with Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions on bounded, planar domains: in 1955, Payne proved that below the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Jonathan Rohleder

For a Riemannian closed spin manifold and under some topological assumption (non-zero $\hat{A}$-genus or enlargeability in the sense of Gromov-Lawson), we give an optimal upper bound for the infimum of the scalar curvature in terms of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hélène Davaux

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 study the optimization of the positive principal eigenvalue of an indefinite weighted problem, associated with the Neumann Laplacian in a box $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, which arises in the investigation of the survival threshold in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Dario Mazzoleni , Benedetta Pellacci , Gianmaria Verzini

We prove Li-Yau-Kr\"oger type bounds for Neumann-type eigenvalues of the poly-harmonic operator and of the biharmonic operator on bounded domains in a Euclidean space. We also prove sharp estimates for lower order eigenvalues of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Feng Du , Jing Mao , Qiaoling Wang , Changyu Xia , Yan Zhao

Consider a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. In this short note we prove that under certain positive curvature assumptions on the manifold and its boundary the Steklov eigenvalues of the manifold are controlled by the Laplace…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Mikhail A. Karpukhin

Inequalities for the eigenvalues of the (negative) Laplacian subject to mixed boundary conditions on polyhedral and more general bounded domains are established. The eigenvalues subject to a Dirichlet boundary condition on a part of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Jonathan Rohleder

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded open planar domain with smooth connected boundary, $\Gamma$, that has been partitioned into two disjoint components, $\Gamma = \Gamma_S \sqcup \Gamma_N$. We consider the Steklov-Neumann eigenproblem on $\Omega$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Chiu-Yen Kao , Braxton Osting , Chee Han Tan , Robert Viator

Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $\pp M$ and $L= \DD+Z$ for a $C^1$-vector field $Z$ on $M$. Several equivalent statements, including the gradient and Poincar\'e/log-Sobolev type inequalities of the Neumann semigroup…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-21 Feng-Yu Wang