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In this paper the first and second domain variation for functionals related to elliptic boundary and eigenvalue problems with Robin boundary conditions is computed. Minimality and maximality properties of the ball among nearly circular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Catherine Bandle , Alfred Wagner

We study the geometry of the first two eigenvalues of a magnetic Steklov problem on an annulus $\Sigma$ (a compact Riemannian surface with genus zero and two boundary components), the magnetic potential being the harmonic one-form having…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Luigi Provenzano , Alessandro Savo

It is known that the torsional rigidity for a punctured ball, with the puncture having the shape of a ball, is minimum when the balls are concentric and the first eigenvalue for the Dirichlet Laplacian for such domains is also a maximum in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-20 Anisa Chorwadwala , Rajesh Mahadevan

We provide a quantitative version of the isoperimetric inequality for the fundamental tone of a biharmonic Neumann problem. Such an inequality has been recently established by Chasman adapting Weinberger's argument for the corresponding…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Davide Buoso , L. Mercredi Chasman , Luigi Provenzano

This article is devoted to the study of spectral optimisation for inhomogeneous plates. In particular, we optimise the first eigenvalue of a vibrating plate with respect to its thickness and/or density. Our result is threefold. First, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Elisa Davoli , Idriss Mazari , Ulisse Stefanelli

Let $\Omega$ be a star-shaped bounded domain in $(\mathbb{S}^{n}, ds^{2})$ with smooth boundary. In this article, we give a sharp lower bound for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Steklov eigenvalue problem in $\Omega.$ This result is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Sheela Verma

For any compact surface $\Sigma$ with smooth, non-empty boundary, we construct a free boundary minimal immersion into a Euclidean Ball $\mathbb{B}^N$ where $N$ is controlled in terms of the topology of $\Sigma$. We obtain these as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Henrik Matthiesen , Romain Petrides

In this paper we study the first Steklov-Laplacian eigenvalue with an internal fixed spherichal obstacle. We prove that the spherical shell locally maximizes the first eigenvalue among nearly spherical sets when both the internal ball and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Gloria Paoli , Gianpaolo Piscitelli , Rossano Sannipoli

We discuss some of the geometric properties, such as the foliated Schwarz symmetry, the monotonicity along the axial and the affine-radial directions, of the first eigenfunctions of the Zaremba problem for the Laplace operator on annular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 T. V. Anoop , K. Ashok Kumar , S Kesavan

We address extremum problems for spectral quantities associated with operators of the form $\Delta^2-\tau\Delta$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions, for non-negative values of $\tau$. The focus is on two shape optimisation problems:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Pedro Freitas , Roméo Leylekian

In this paper we prove that given a volume, among all domains with smooth boundary in rank-1 symmetric spaces of noncompact type, geodesic balls maximizes the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue. We also prove a comparison result for the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-09 Binoy , G. Santhanam

We consider mixed Steklov-Dirichlet eigenvalue problem on smooth bounded domains in Riemannian manifolds. Under certain symmetry assumptions on multiconnected domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ with a spherical hole, we obtain isoperimetric…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Sagar Basak , Anisa Chorwadwala , Sheela Verma

Error estimates for approximations of harmonic functions on planar regions by subspaces spanned by the first harmonic Steklov eigenfunctions are found. They are based on the explicit representation of harmonic functions in terms of these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Giles Auchmuty , Manki Cho

This work deals with theoretical and numerical aspects related to the behavior of the Steklov-Lam\'e eigenvalues on variable domains. After establishing the eigenstructure for the disk, we prove that for a certain class of Lam\'e…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Beniamin Bogosel , Pedro R. S. Antunes

This paper examines the Laplace equation with mixed boundary conditions, the Neumann and Steklov boundary conditions. This models a container with holes in it, like a pond filled with water but partly covered by immovable pieces on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Habib Ammari , Kthim Imeri , Nilima Nigam

We consider the Steklov eigenvalues of the Laplace operator as limiting Neumann eigenvalues in a problem of mass concentration at the boundary of a ball. We discuss the asymptotic behavior of the Neumann eigenvalues and find explicit…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Pier Domenico Lamberti , Luigi Provenzano

We study the problem of maximizing the first nontrivial Steklov eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator among subdomains of fixed volume of a Riemannian manifold. More precisely, we study the expansion of the corresponding profile of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall , Tobias Weth

The aim of this article is to prove a quantitative inequality for the first eigenvalue of a Schr\"odinger operator in the ball. More precisely, we optimize the first eigenvalue $\lambda(V)$ of the operator $\mathcal L_v:=-\Delta-V$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Idriss Mazari

This work investigates upper bounds for the spectrum of the Steklov-type operator on Riemannian manifolds with boundary. We extend the Fraser-Schoen estimate for the first positive Steklov eigenvalue to higher Steklov eigenvalues, in terms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Tiarlos Cruz , Leandro F. Pessoa , Erisvaldo Véras

The Steklov problem on a compact Lipschitz domain is to find harmonic functions on the interior whose outward normal derivative on the boundary is some multiple (eigenvalue) of its trace on the boundary. These eigenvalues form the Steklov…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Spencer Bullent