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In this article, we establish a geometric lower bound for the first positive eigenvalue $\lambda^{(1)}_{1}$ of the rough Laplacian acting on $1$-forms for closed $2n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonvanishing Euler characteristic.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Teng Huang , Weiwei Wang

Let $\Omega$ be a domain in $\Ri^d$ with boundary $\Gamma$ and let $d_\Gamma$ denote the Euclidean distance to $\Gamma$. Further let $H=-\divv(C\nabla)$ where $C=(\,c_{kl}\,)>0$ with $c_{kl}=c_{lk}$ are real, bounded, Lipschitz continuous…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Derek W Robinson

We give a new lower bound for the first gap $\lambda_2 - \lambda_1$ of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Schr{\"o}dinger operator on a bounded convex domain $\Omega$ in R$^n$ or S$^n$ and greatly sharpens the previous estimates. The new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun Ling

This is the first part of a series of two papers where we study perturbations of divergence form second order elliptic operators $-\mathop{\operatorname{div}} A \nabla$ by first and zero order terms, whose coefficients lie in critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Simon Bortz , Steve Hofmann , José Luis Luna Garcia , Svitlana Mayboroda , Bruno Poggi

We obtain an upper bound on the lowest magnetic Neumann eigenvalue of a bounded, convex, smooth, planar domain with moderate intensity of the homogeneous magnetic field. This bound is given as a product of a purely geometric factor…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Ayman Kachmar , Vladimir Lotoreichik

For a bounded domain $\Omega$ with a piecewise smooth boundary in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbf{R}^{n}$, we study eigenvalues of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem of the Laplacian. First we give a general inequality for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Qing-Ming Cheng , Xuerong Qi

We consider a family of open sets $M_\epsilon$ which shrinks with respect to an appropriate parameter $\epsilon$ to a graph. Under the additional assumption that the vertex neighbourhoods are small we show that the appropriately shifted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Olaf Post

The purpose of this article is twofold. The first aim is to prove that if there exist a sequence $\{\varphi_j\}\subset \mathrm{Aut}(\Omega)$ and $a\in \Omega$ such that $\lim_{j\to\infty}\varphi_j(a)=\xi_0$ and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Ninh Van Thu , Nguyen Thi Lan Huong , Nguyen Quang Dieu

Let $\Omega$ be a strongly Lipschitz domain of $\reel^n$. Consider an elliptic second order divergence operator $L$ (including a boundary condition on $\partial\Omega$) and define a Hardy space by imposing the non-tangential maximal…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Auscher , E. Russ

Let $M$ denote a compact, connected Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\in{\mathbb N}$. We assume that $ M$ has a smooth and connected boundary. Denote by $g$ and ${\rm d}v_g$ respectively, the Riemannian metric on $M$ and the associated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Aïssatou Mossèle Ndiaye

We will show in this paper that if $\lambda$ is very close to 1, then $$I(M,\lambda,m)= \sup_{u\in H^{1,n}_0(M) ,\int_M|\nabla u|^ndV=1}\int_\Omega (e^{\alpha_n |u|^\frac{n}{n-1}}-\lambda\sum\limits_{k=1}^m\frac{|\alpha_nu^\frac{n}{n-1}|^k}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuxiang Li

Let $\Omega$ be an $n$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold $(n \geq 3)$ with $C^\infty$ boundary, and consider $L^2$-normalized eigenfunctions $ - \Delta \phi_{\lambda} = \lambda^2 \phi_\lambda$ with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Hans Christianson , John A. Toth

The Faber-Krahn deficit $\delta\lambda$ of an open bounded set $\Omega$ is the normalized gap between the values that the first Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue achieves on $\Omega$ and on the ball having same measure as $\Omega$. For any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Carlo Nitsch

We study the problem of minimizing the second Dirichlet eigenvalue for the Laplacian operator among sets of given perimeter. In two dimensions, we prove that the optimum exists, is convex, regular, and its boundary contains exactly two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Antoine Henrot

A geometric potential $V_C$ depending on the mean and Gaussian curvatures of a surface $\Sigma$ arises when confining a particle initially in a three-dimensional space $\Omega$ onto $\Sigma$ when the particle Hamiltonian $H_\Omega$ is taken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Encinosa

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be an open set of finite measure and let $\Theta$ be a disjoint union of two balls of half measure. We study the stability of the full Dirichlet spectrum of $\Omega$ when its second eigenvalue is close to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Alexis de Villeroché

Let $(G_\epsilon)_{\epsilon>0}$ be a family of '$\epsilon$-thin' Riemannian manifolds modeled on a finite metric graph $G$, for example, the $\epsilon$-neighborhood of an embedding of $G$ in some Euclidean space with straight edges. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Daniel Grieser

Let $\Omega_1,\Omega_2$ be functions of homogeneous of degree $0$ and $\vec\Omega=(\Omega_1,\Omega_2)\in L\log L(\mathbb{S}^{n-1})\times L\log L(\mathbb{S}^{n-1})$. In this paper, we investigate the limiting weak-type behavior for bilinear…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Moyan Qin , Huoxiong Wu , Qingying Xue

For a certain domain $\Omega$ in the Sierpinski gasket $\mathcal{SG}$ whose boundary is a line segment, a complete description of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian, with an exact count of dimensions of eigenspaces, under the Dirichlet and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Hua Qiu

We investigate spectral properties of the operator describing a quantum particle confined to a planar domain $\Omega$ rotating around a fixed point with an angular velocity $\omega$ and demonstrate several properties of its principal…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-11 Diana Barseghyan , Pavel Exner