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In this paper, by extending the notions of harmonic transplantation and harmonic radius in the Heisenberg group, we give an upper bound for the first eigenvalue for the following Dirichlet problem: $$(P_{\Omega}) \left\{…

For $N\geq 2$, a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, and $g_0, V_0 \in L^1_{loc}(\Omega)$, we study the optimization of the first eigenvalue for the following weighted eigenvalue problem: \begin{align*} -\Delta_p \phi + V…

We consider an eigenvalue problem for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger type operator with the Robin boundary condition as given below. \begin{equation*} \label{ab-Robin p-Laplace evp with potential term_intro} \left\{ \begin{split}…

Let \Omega be a bounded connected, open set of \R^n with Lipschitz boundary. Let F be a suitable norm in \R^n and let \Delta_F u be the so-colled Finsler Laplacian. In this paper we prove two inequalities for the first eigenvalue of…

We consider the eigenvalues of the magnetic Laplacian on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb R^2$ with uniform magnetic field $\beta>0$ and magnetic Neumann boundary conditions. We find upper and lower bounds for the ground state energy…

Inspired by a recent result of Funano's, we provide a sharp quantitative comparison result between the first nontrivial eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian on bounded convex domains $\Omega_{1} \subset \Omega_{2}$ in any dimension $d$…

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…

We study the efficiency of the first Dirichlet eigenfunction $u$ on bounded convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, defined as the ratio between the mean value of $u$ on $\Omega$ and its maximum value. By exploiting improved…

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$, be an open bounded connected set. We consider the indefinite weighted eigenvalue problem $-\Delta u =\lambda m u$ in $\Omega$ with $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$, $m\in L^\infty(\Omega)$ and with…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded $C^{2,\alpha}$ domain in $\R^n$ ($n\geq 1$, $0<\alpha<1$), $\Omega^{\ast}$ be the open Euclidean ball centered at 0 having the same Lebesgue measure as $\Omega$, $\tau\geq 0$ and $v\in L^{\infty}(\Omega,\R^n)$ with…

We derive a sufficient condition for a Hermitian $N \times N$ matrix $A$ to have at least $m$ eigenvalues (counting multiplicities) in the interval $(-\epsilon, \epsilon)$. This condition is expressed in terms of the existence of a…

Here we prove an isoperimetric inequality for the harmonic mean of the first $N-1$ non-trivial Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator for domains contained in a hemisphere of $\mathbb{S}^N$.

We investigate the overdetermined problem given by \begin{equation*} \Delta u=0 \text{ in } \Omega,\quad \frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu} =\sigma_1 u \text{ on } \partial \Omega, \quad |\nabla u|=\text{constant on } \partial \Omega,…

In this paper we consider the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1(\Omega)$ of the Grushin operator $\Delta_G:=\Delta_{x_1}+|x_1|^{2s}\Delta_{x_2}$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^d=…

We prove a boundary Harnack inequality for nonlocal elliptic operators $L$ in non-divergence form with bounded measurable coefficients. Namely, our main result establishes that if $Lu_1=Lu_2=0$ in $\Omega\cap B_1$, $u_1=u_2=0$ in…

For a given bounded domain $\Omega\subset {\Bbb R}^n$ with $C^1$-smooth boundary, we prove the P\'olya conjecture for the Neumann eigenvalues. In other words, we prove that \begin{eqnarray*} \mu_{k+1}\le \frac{(2\pi)^2k^{2/n}}{(\omega_n…

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The motivation of this paper is to study a second order elliptic operator which appears naturally in Riemannian geometry, for instance in the study of hypersurfaces with constant $r$-mean curvature. We prove a generalized Bochner-type…

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