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We consider the principal eigenvalue problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the upper half of a topological torus under the Dirichlet boundary condition. We present a construction of the upper half of a topological torus that admits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Putri Zahra Kamalia , Shigeru Sakaguchi

We investigate in this paper the existence of a metric which maximizes the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on Riemannian surfaces. We first prove that, in a given conformal class, there always exists such a maximizing metric which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Romain Petrides

Given a compact Riemannian manifold (M, g) and two positive functions $\rho$ and $\sigma$, we are interested in the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet energy functional weighted by $\sigma$, with respect to the L 2 inner product weighted by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Bruno Colbois , Ahmad El Soufi

This paper investigates the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the $p$-Laplacian in Riemannian manifolds. Firstly, we establish a lower bound for this eigenvalue under the condition that the domain includes a specific function which fulfills…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xiaoshang Jin

Let X be a manifold equipped with a complete Riemannian metric of constant negative curvature and finite volume. We demonstrate the finiteness of the collection of totally geodesic immersed hypersurfaces in X that lie in the zero-level set…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Chris Judge , Sugata Mondal

In this paper, we study the spectrum of the weighted Laplacian (also called Bakry-Emery or Witten Laplacian) $L_\sigma$ on a compact, connected, smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ endowed with a measure $\sigma dv_g$. First, we obtain upper…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Bruno Colbois , Ahmad El Soufi , Alessandro Savo

For any bounded regular domain $\Omega$ of a real analytic Riemannian manifold $M$, we denote by $\lambda_{k}(\Omega)$ the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian of $\Omega$. In this paper, we consider $\lambda_k$ and as a functional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-25 Ahmad El Soufi , Saïd Ilias

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a bounded, convex domain and let $-\Delta \phi_1 = \mu_1 \phi_1$ be the first nontrivial Laplacian eigenfunction with Neumann boundary conditions. The Hot Spots conjecture claims that the maximum and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Stefan Steinerberger

The first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a surface can be viewed as a functional on the space of Riemannian metrics of a given area. Critical points of this functional are called extremal metrics. The only known extremal metrics are a round…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Jakobson , Nikolai Nadirashvili , Iosif Polterovich

We study the asymptotic properties of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian in the case of a compact Riemannian surface of nonpositive sectional curvature. We show that the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of a semiclassical measure for the geodesic flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Gabriel Riviere

Let $\Omega \subset {R}^n,$ $n \geq 3,$ be a bounded open set, $x=(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n)$ a generic point which belongs to $\Omega,$ $u \colon \Omega \to {R}^N ,$ $N>1,$ and $ Du=(D_\alpha u^i)$, $D_\alpha = \partial/\partial x_\alpha, $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 M. A. Ragusa , A. Tachikawa

Ten sharp lower estimates of the first non-trivial eigenvalue of Laplacian on compact Riemannian manifolds are reviewed and compared. An improved variational formula, a general common estimate, and a new sharp one are added. The best lower…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Mu-Fa Chen

We give a delocalization estimate for eigenfunctions of the discrete Laplacian on large $d+1$-regular graphs, showing that any subset of the graph supporting $\epsilon$ of the $L^2$ mass of an eigenfunction must be large. For graphs…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Shimon Brooks , Elon Lindenstrauss

Let $M$ be a closed hypersurface in a simply connected rank-1 symmetric space $\olm$. In this paper, we give an upper bound for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian of $M$ in terms of the Ricci curvature of $\olm$ and the square of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-24 G. Santhanam

In the following work, we obtain a lower bound for the first Neumann eingevalue of the drift Laplacian $\Delta^{\varphi}$ for a family of properly embedded $[\varphi,\vec{e}_{3}]$-minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with concave function…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 A. L. Martínez-Triviño

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold and $\{\phi_h\}$ an $L^2$-normalized sequence of Laplace eigenfunctions, $-h^2\Delta_g\phi_h=\phi_h$. Given a smooth submanifold $H \subset M$ of codimension $k\geq 1$, we find conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Yaiza Canzani , Jeffrey Galkowski

We consider mass concentration properties of Laplace eigenfunctions $\varphi_\lambda$, that is, smooth functions satisfying the equation $-\Delta \varphi_\lambda = \lambda \varphi_\lambda$, on a smooth closed Riemannian manifold. Using a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Bogdan Georgiev , Mayukh Mukherjee

This is a survey for the JDG 50th Anniversary conference of recent results on nodal sets of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold. In part the techniques are `local', i.e. only assuming eigenfunctions are defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Steve Zelditch

Let $M$ be a compact smooth Riemannian manifold of finite dimension $n+1$ with boundary $\partial M$and $\partial M$ is a compact $n$-dimensional submanifold of $M$. We show that for generic Riemannian metric $g$, all the critical points of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Marco Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti

This work considers the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the weighted Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g,\partial M)$ under the singular perturbation. This perturbation involves the imposition of vanishing Dirichlet boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Medet Nursultanov , William Trad , Justin Tzou , Leo Tzou