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In this paper we prove a sharp inequality of Szeg\H{o}-Weinberger type for the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the $p-$Laplacian with Neumann boundary conditions. This applies to convex sets with given diameter. Some variants, extensions and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-01 L. Brasco , C. Nitsch , C. Trombetti

We prove that the isoperimetric profile of a convex domain $\Omega$ with compact closure in a Riemannian manifold $(M^{n+1},g)$ satisfies a second order differential inequality which only depends on the dimension of the manifold and on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vincent Bayle , César Rosales

In this paper, we prove an isoperimetric inequality for lower order eigenvalues of the free membrane problem on bounded domains of a Euclidean space or a hyperbolic space which strengthens the well-known Szeg\"o-Weinberger inequality and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Qiaoling Wang , Changyu Xia

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded $C^{2}$ domain in $\R^n$, and let $\Omega^{\ast}$ be the Euclidean ball centered at 0 and having the same Lebesgue measure as $\Omega$. Consider the operator $L=-\div(A\nabla)+v\cdot \nabla +V$ on $\Omega$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francois Hamel , Nikolai Nadirashvili , Emmanuel Russ

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbf R^2$ and $\lambda^{\mathsf N} (\Omega)$ the first non-zero Neumann eigenvalue of the operator $-\Delta$ on $\Omega$. In this paper, for any $\gamma \in [0, \lambda^{\mathsf N} (\Omega) )$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Quôc-Anh Ngô , Van Hoang Nguyen

Refining the sharp upper bounds $\mu_{k,d}^* $ obtained by Kr\"oger (1999) for the $k$-th Neumann eigenvalue of a convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, we prove the following inequalities: for any $k\in \mathbb{N}$ there exists a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Dorin Bucur , Andrea Gentile , Antoine Henrot

Let $\tau_k(\Omega)$ be the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Laplace operator in a bounded domain $\Omega$ of the form $\Omega_{\text{out}} \setminus \overline{B_{\alpha}}$ under the Neumann boundary condition on $\partial \Omega_{\text{out}}$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 T. V. Anoop , Vladimir Bobkov , Pavel Drabek

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Hans Christianson , John A. Toth

This paper is devoted to a comparison between the normalized first (non-trivial) Neumann eigenvalue $|\Omega| \mu_1(\Omega)$ for a Lipschitz open set $\Omega$ in the plane, and the normalized first (non-trivial) Steklov eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Antoine Henrot , Marco Michetti

We study isoperimetric problems with respect to infinite measures on $R ^n$. In the case of the measure $\mu$ defined by $d\mu = e^{c|x|^2} dx$, $c\geq 0$, we prove that, among all sets with given $\mu-$measure, the ball centered at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-04 F. Brock , A. Mercaldo , M. R. Posteraro

We compute the whole spectrum of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator acting on differential p-forms on the unit Euclidean ball. Then, we prove a new upper bound for its first eigenvalue on a domain $\Omega$ in Euclidean space in terms of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-17 Simon Raulot , Alessandro Savo

Let $c, k_1,..., k_N $ be non-negative numbers, and define a measure $\mu $ in the wedge $W:= \{x\in \mathbb{R} ^N :\, x_i >0, i=1,...,N\} $ by $d\mu = e^{c|x|^2} x_1 ^{k_1}...x_N ^{k_N} \, dx $. It is shown that among all measurable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Friedemann Brock , Francesco Chiacchio , Anna Mercaldo

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded Lipshcitz domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and we study boundary behaviors of solutions to the Laplacian eigenvalue equation with constant Neumann data. \begin{align} \label{cequation0} \begin{cases} -\Delta u=cu\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Yong Huang , Qinfeng Li , Qiuqi Li , Ruofei Yao

We study the following class of Steklov eigenvalue problems: \[ \nabla \cdot \bigl( w \nabla u \bigr) = 0 \quad \text{in } \Omega, \qquad \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu} = \gamma v u \quad \text{on } \partial \Omega, \] where $w$ and $v$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Friedemann Brock , Francesco Chiacchio

Let $\Omega=\Omega_0\setminus \overline{\Theta}\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, where $\Omega_0$ and $\Theta$ are two open, bounded and convex sets such that $\overline{\Theta}\subset \Omega_0$ and let $\beta<0$ be a given parameter. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Simone Cito , Gloria Paoli , Gianpaolo Piscitelli

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded domain satisfying a Hayman-type asymmetry condition, and let $ D $ be an arbitrary bounded domain referred to as "obstacle". We are interested in the behaviour of the first Dirichlet eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Bogdan Georgiev , Mayukh Mukherjee

The present paper is devoted to geometric optimization problems related to the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on bounded subdomains $\Omega$ of a Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal{M},g)$. More precisely, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall , Tobias Weth

For a domain $\Omega$ in a geodesically convex surface, we introduce a scattering energy $\mathcal{E}(\Omega)$, which measures the asymmetry of $\Omega$ by quantifying its incompatibility with an isometric circle action. We prove several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Joseph Ansel Hoisington , Peter McGrath

An isoperimetric inequality for lower order nonzero Neumann eigenvalues of the Witten-Laplacian on bounded domains in a Euclidean space or a hyperbolic space has been proven in this paper. About this conclusion, we would like to point out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Ruifeng Chen , Jing Mao