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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…

The purpose of this short note is to give a variation on the classical Donsker-Varadhan inequality, which bounds the first eigenvalue of a second-order elliptic operator on a bounded domain $\Omega$ by the largest mean first exit time of…

For a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ and $p \geq q \geq 2$, we establish quantified versions of the classical Friedrichs inequality $\|\nabla u\|_p^p - \lambda_1 \|u\|_q^p \geq 0$, $u \in W_0^{1,p}(\Omega)$, where $\lambda_1$ is a…

We study the spectral gap of the Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph through the connectivity threshold. In particular, we show that for any fixed $\delta > 0$ if $$p \ge \frac{(1/2 + \delta) \log n}{n},$$ then the normalized graph Laplacian of…

We study the optimal sets $\Omega^\ast\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ for spectral functionals $F\big(\lambda_1(\Omega),\dots,\lambda_p(\Omega)\big)$, which are bi-Lipschitz with respect to each of the eigenvalues…

We investigate spectral properties of the Neumann Laplacian $\mathscr{A}_\varepsilon$ on a periodic unbounded domain $\Omega_\varepsilon$ depending on a small parameter $\varepsilon>0$. The domain $\Omega_\varepsilon$ is obtained by…

The goal of this paper is to study the Dirichlet eigenvalues of bounded domains $\Omega\subset \Omega'$. With a local spectral stability requirement on $\Omega$, we show that the difference of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of $\Omega'$ and…

We study spectral stability estimates of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplacian in non-convex domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2$. With the help of these estimates we obtain asymptotically sharp inequalities of ratios of eigenvalues in…

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded $C^1$ domain and $p>1$. For $\alpha>0$, define the quantity \[ \Lambda(\alpha)=\inf_{u\in W^{1,p}(\Omega),\, u\not\equiv 0} \Big(\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^p\,\mathrm{d}x - \alpha…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $C^{1}$ boundary and let $u_\lambda$ be a Dirichlet Laplace eigenfunction in $\Omega$ with eigenvalue $\lambda$. We show that the $(n-1)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the zero set…

For a non-empty compact set $E$ in a proper subdomain $\Omega$ of the complex plane, we denote the diameter of $E$ and the distance from $E$ to the boundary of $\Omega$ by $d(E)$ and $d(E,\partial\Omega),$ respectively. The quantity…

We study the boundary value problems for harmonic functions on open connected subsets of post-critically finite (p.c.f.) self-similar sets, on which the Laplacian is defined through a strongly recurrent self-similar local regular Dirichlet…

We consider the parabolic, initial value problem $$ v_t =\Delta_p(v)+\lambda g(x,v)\phi_p(v), \quad \text{in $\Omega \times (0,\infty),$} $$ \[ v =0, \text{in $\partial\Omega \times (0,\infty),$}\tag{IVP} v =v_0\ge0, \text{in $\Omega \times…

Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold with a distinguished point $O$ and assume that the geodesic distance $d$ from $O$ is an isoparametric function. Let $\Omega\subset M$ be a bounded domain, with $O \in \Omega$, and consider the problem…

In this paper, we prove the Generalized P\'{o}lya conjecture for the Dirichlet eigenvalues. In other words, we show that $\lambda_k(\alpha) \ge \frac{(2\pi)^{\alpha} k^{\alpha/n}}{\big(\omega_n \cdot {vol}(\Omega)\big)^{\alpha/n}}, \quad\,…

It is well known that non-negative solutions to the Dirichlet problem $\Delta u =f$ in a bounded domain $\Omega$, where $f\in L^q(\Omega)$, $q>\frac{n}2$, satisfy $\|u\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)} \leq C\|f\|_{L^q(\Omega)}$. We generalize this…

In [SWW16, HW17] it is shown that the difference of the first two eigenvalues of the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary condition on convex domain with diameter $D$ of sphere $\mathbb S^n$ is $\geq 3 \frac{\pi^2}{D^2}$ when $n \geq 3$. We…

In this paper, we considered the spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian $\Delta_\epsilon$ on $\Omega_\epsilon=\{(x,y): -l_1<x<l_2, 0<y<\epsilon h(x)]\}$ where $ l_1,l_2>0$ and $h(x)$ is a positive analytic function having $0$ the only point…

For a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and a small number $\frak{T} > 0$, let \[ \mathcal{E}_0(\Omega) = \lambda_1(\Omega) + {\frak{T}} {\text{tor}}(\Omega) = \inf_{u, w \in H^1_0(\Omega)\setminus \{0\}} \frac{\int |\nabla u|^2}{\int…

In this paper we prove that the shape optimization problem $$\min\left\{\lambda_k(\Omega):\ \Omega\subset\R^d,\ \Omega\ \hbox{open},\ P(\Omega)=1,\ |\Omega|<+\infty\right\},$$ has a solution for any $k\in\N$ and dimension $d$. Moreover,…