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In this paper, we prove the existence of a family of non trivial compact subdomains $\O$ in the manifold $\mathcal{M}=\R^N\times \R/2\pi\Z, N\geq 2$ for which the overdetermined Neumann boundary value problem \begin{align}\label{Neumann1}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Ignace Aristide Minlend , Jing Wu

We introduce an analogue of Payne's nodal line conjecture, which asserts that the nodal (zero) set of any eigenfunction associated with the second eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded planar domain should reach the boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-03 J. B. Kennedy

P\'{o}lya's conjecture on the eigenvalues of the Laplacian has been one of the core problems in spectral geometry. Building upon the recent breakthrough works on P\'{o}lya's conjecture for balls and annuli by Filonov, Levitin, Polterovich…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jingwei Guo , Changxing Miao , Weiwei Wang , Guoqing Zhan

This paper is motivated by the maximization of the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Laplace operator with Neumann boundary conditions among domains of ${\mathbb R}^N$ with prescribed measure. We relax the problem to the class of (possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Dorin Bucur , Eloi Martinet , Edouard Oudet

The analogue of P\'olya's conjecture is shown to fail for the fractional Laplacian (-Delta)^{alpha/2} on an interval in 1-dimension, whenever 0 < alpha < 2. The failure is total: every eigenvalue lies below the corresponding term of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Mateusz Kwaśnicki , Richard S. Laugesen , Bartłomiej A. Siudeja

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

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

Let $\mathbb{M}$ denote a complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature $K_{\mathbb{M}} \leq k$ and Ricci curvature $\text{Ric}_{\mathbb{M}} \geq (n-1)K$, where $k,K \in \mathbb{R}$. Then for a bounded domain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sheela Verma

In this paper, we consider the following overdetermined eigenvalue problem on an unbounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ with $N\geq1$ \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u=\lambda u\,\, &\text{in}\,\, \Omega,\\ u=0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Guowei Dai , Yingxin Sun , Yong Zhang

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^2$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$, and let $\omega_h$ be the set of points in $\Omega$ whose distance from the boundary is smaller than $h$. We prove that the eigenvalues of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Francesco Ferraresso , Luigi Provenzano

We proceed with the investigation of the problem $(P_\lambda): $ $-\Delta u = \lambda b(x)|u|^{q-2}u +a(x)|u|^{p-2}u \ \mbox{ in } \Omega, \ \ \frac{\partial u}{\partial \mathbf{n}} = 0 \ \mbox{ on } \partial \Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Humberto Ramos Quoirin , Kenichiro Umezu

We provide quantitative improvements to the Berezin-Li-Yau inequality and the Kr\"oger inequality, in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 2$. The improvement on Kr\"oger's inequality resolves an open question raised by Weidl from 2006. The improvements…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Zaihui Gan , Renjin Jiang , Fanghua Lin

Let $(\Omega,g)$ be a piecewise-smooth, bounded convex domain in $\R^2$ and consider $L^2$-normalized Neumann eigenfunctions $\phi_{\lambda}$ with eigenvalue $\lambda^2$ and $u_{\lambda}:= \phi_{\lambda} |_{\partial \Omega}$ the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Hans Christianson , John A. Toth

We study the nodal set of the Steklov eigenfunctions on the boundary of a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ - the eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Under the assumption that the domain $\Omega$ is $C^2$, we prove a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Katarina Bellova , Fanghua Lin

A plasmon of a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ is a non-trivial bounded harmonic function on $\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\partial\Omega$ which is continuous at $\partial\Omega$ and whose exterior and interior normal derivatives at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Daniel Grieser

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

In this note, we investigate upper bounds of the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian of a bounded domain (with smooth boundary) in a given complete (not compact a priori) Riemannian manifold with Ricci bounded below . For this, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-21 Bruno Colbois , Daniel Maerten

For any $p \in ( 1, +\infty)$, we give a new inequality for the first nontrivial Neumann eigenvalue $\mu _ p (\Omega, \varphi)$ of the $p$-Laplacian on a convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ with a power-concave weight $\varphi$. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Vincenzo Amato , Dorin Bucur , Ilaria Fragalà

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Konstantin Pankrashkin

We study the hot spots conjecture for domains in the Gaussian space $(\mathbb{R}^n, (2\pi)^{-n/2} e^{-|x|^2/2} dx)$ for $n \ge 2$. Given a bounded domain $\Omega$ with a piecewise smooth boundary, we consider the first nontrivial…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Bobo Hua , Jin Sun