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The second eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian is shown to be maximal for the disk among simply-connected planar domains of fixed area when the Robin parameter is scaled by perimeter in the form $\alpha/L(\Omega)$, and $\alpha$ lies between…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Pedro Freitas , Richard S. Laugesen

The spectral theory of the p-Laplacian is well developed for classical Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, but the transitional Robin regime on exterior domains remains largely unexplored. This paper studies a weighted p-Laplacian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Subha Pal , Sarath Sasi

We study the Robin eigenvalue problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Riemannian manifolds. Our first result is a comparison theorem for the second Robin eigenvalue on geodesic balls in manifolds whose sectional curvatures are bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang , Haotian Wu

The third eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian on a simply-connected planar domain of given area is bounded above by the third eigenvalue of a disjoint union of two disks, provided the Robin parameter lies in a certain range and is scaled in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Alexandre Girouard , Richard S. Laugesen

In this paper, we prove an upper bound for the first Robin eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian with a positive boundary parameter and a quantitative version of the reverse Faber-Krahn type inequality for the first Robin eigenvalue of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Vincenzo Amato , Andrea Gentile , Alba Lia Masiello

In this article, we study the mixed Steklov--Neumann eigenvalue problem on doubly connected domains. First, we show that among all doubly connected domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ of the form $B_{R_2}\setminus \overline{B_{R_1}}$, where $B_{R_1}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Sagar Basak , Gloria Paoli , Rossano Sannipoli , Sheela Verma

In this paper, we investigate a shape optimization problem for the second Robin eigenvalue of the weighted Laplacian on bounded Lipschitz domains symmetric about the origin. Our main theorem states that the ball centered at the origin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yi Gao , Kui Wang , Anqiang Zhu

We study some properties of Laplacian eigenvalues with negative Robin boundary conditions. We will show some monotonicity properties on annuli of the first eigenvalue by means of shape optimization techniques.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Leonardo Trani

We consider the first Robin eigenvalue $\l_p(M,\a)$ for the $p$-Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with nonempty smooth boundary, with $\a \in \R$ being the Robin parameter. Firstly, we prove eigenvalue comparison theorems of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang

We obtain shape derivative formulae for the first eigenvalue of the Robin $p$-Laplace operator. This result is used to study the variation of the first eigenvalue with respect to perturbations of the domain. In particular, we prove that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Ardra A , Mohan Mallick , Sarath Sasi

In this paper we study a Steklov-Robin eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian in annular domains. More precisely, we consider $\Omega=\Omega_0 \setminus \overline{B}_{r}$, where $B_{r}$ is the ball centered at the origin with radius $r>0$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Nunzia Gavitone , Rossano Sannipoli

The celebrated conjecture by Payne, P\'{o}lya and Weinberger (1956) states that for the fixed membrane problem, the ratio of the first two eigenvalues, $\lambda_2/\lambda_1$, is maximized by a disk. A more general dimensional version of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Guowei Dai , Yingxin Sun

In this paper, we investigate an optimal design problem motivated by some issues arising in population dynamics. In a nutshell, we aim at determining the optimal shape of a region occupied by resources for maximizing the survival ability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Fabien Caubet , Thibaut Deheuvels , Yannick Privat

Let $M$ be a compact connected smooth manifold with smooth boundary, and let $\rho$ be a positive continuous function on the boundary which is served as the Robin parameter. In this paper, we study three problems concerning the prescription…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Xiang He , Zuoqin Wang

In this paper, we obtain optimal upper bounds for all the Neumann eigenvalues in two situations (that are closely related). First we consider a one-dimensional Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem where the density is a function $h(x)$ whose…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Antoine Henrot , Marco Michetti

This article is the continuation of our first work on the determination of the cases where there is equality in Courant's Nodal Domain theorem in the case of a Robin boundary condition (with Robin parameter $h$). For the square, our first…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Katie Gittins , Bernard Helffer

In this paper we study optimization problems for Neumann eigenvalues $\mu_k$ among convex domains with a constraint on the diameter or the perimeter. We work mainly in the plane, though some results are stated in higher dimension. We study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Beniamin Bogosel , Antoine Henrot , Marco Michetti

We consider the Laplace operator in the exterior of a compact set in the plane, subject to Robin boundary conditions. If the boundary coupling is sufficiently negative, there are at least two discrete eigenvalues below the essential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 David Krejcirik , Vladimir Lotoreichik

The paper is devoted to the study of some properties of the first eigenvalue of the anisotropic $p$-Laplace operator with Robin boundary condition involving a function $\beta$ which in general is not constant. In particular we obtain sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Nunzia Gavitone , Leonardo Trani

We consider an eigenvalue problem for the biharmonic operator with Steklov-type boundary conditions. We obtain it as a limiting Neumann problem for the biharmonic operator in a process of mass concentration at the boundary. We study the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Davide Buoso , Luigi Provenzano