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We study the higher spin Dirac operators on 3-dimensional manifolds and show that there exist two Laplace type operators for each associated bundle. Furthermore, we give lower bound estimations for the first eigenvalues of these Laplace…

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In this paper, we study the evolving behaviors of the first eigenvalue of Laplace-Beltrami operator under the normalized backward Ricci flow, construct various quantities which are monotonic under the backward Ricci flow and get upper and…

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Maximization and minimization problems of the principle eigenvalue for divergence form second order elliptic operators with the Dirichlet boundary condition are considered. The principal eigen map of such elliptic operators is introduced…

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Consider an $L^2$-normalized Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunction $e_\lambda$ on a compact, boundary-less Riemannian manifold with $\Delta e_\lambda = -\lambda^2 e_\lambda$. We study eigenfunction triple products \[ \langle e_\lambda e_\mu, e_\nu…

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This paper is concerned with the maximisation of the k'th eigenvalue of the Laplacian amongst flat tori of unit volume in dimension d as k goes to infinity. We show that in any dimension maximisers exist for any given k, but that any…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Jean Lagacé

We study eigenfunctions of the Laplace--Beltrami operator \(\Delta_X\) in exterior domains \(\Omega\) of rank-one Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type \(X\), a class that includes all hyperbolic spaces. Extending the classical…

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We obtain sharp lower bounds for the first eigenvalue of four types of eigenvalue problem defined by the bi-Laplace operator on compact manifolds with boundary and determine all the eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenfunctions of a…

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In this paper, we investigate the first eigenvalue $\Lambda_1$ of the area Jacobi operator for complex curves in K\"ahler surfaces, establishing an extrinsic counterpart to the classical Lichnerowicz theorem for the Laplace-Beltrami…

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This paper deals with the numerical optimization of the first three eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator of domain in the Euclidean sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Neumann boundary conditions. We address two approaches : the first one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Eloi Martinet

Let X be a Riemannian symmetric space of non-compact type. We prove a theorem of holomorphic extension for eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on X, by techniques from the theory of partial differential equations.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Bernhard Kroetz , Henrik Schlichtkrull

For a bounded domain $\Omega$ with a piecewise smooth boundary in a complete Riemannian manifold $M$, we study eigenvalues of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem of the Laplacian. By making use of a fact that eigenfunctions form an orthonormal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-27 Qing-Ming Cheng , Xuerong Qi

In this paper, we consider the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$ in the Euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^n$ in the case where $1<s<2$. As first observed in \cite{Y}, the problem can be extended to the upper…

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It is shown that the estimates obtained by Manfredo P. do Carmo and Detang Zhou, in their paper "Eigenvalue estimate on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds and applications", for the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-16 Barnabe Pessoa Lima , Newton Luis Santos

In this paper, by meticulously constructing a minimizing sequence within a suitable Sobolev space and leveraging the variational principle, we establish that the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on an embedded…

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The main difficulty in solving the Helmholtz equation within polygons is due to non-analytic vertices. By using a method nearly identical to that used by Fox, Henrici, and Moler in their 1967 paper; it is demonstrated that such eigenvalue…

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In this article, we extend a result of L. Loomis and W. Rudin, regarding boundary behavior of positive harmonic functions on the upper half space $\R_+^{n+1}$. We show that similar results remain valid for more general approximate…

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We consider the torsional rigidity and the principal eigenvalue related to the Laplace operator with Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions. The goal is to find upper and lower bounds to products of suitable powers of the quantities above…

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Let $S$ be a closed orientable hyperbolic surface with Euler characteristic$\chi$, and let $\lambda_k(S)$ be the $k$-th positive eigenvalue for the Laplacian on $S$. According to famous result of Otal and Rosas, $\lambda_{-\chi}>\frac14$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Pierre Jammes

The paper is concerned with the maximization of Laplace eigenvalues on surfaces of given volume with a Riemannian metric in a fixed conformal class. A significant progress on this problem has been recently achieved by Nadirashvili-Sire and…

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