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In this paper we consider eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a planar domain with polygonal boundary with Dirichlet, Neumann, or mixed boundary conditions. The main result is a quantitative estimate on the $L^2$ mass of eigenfunctions near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Hans Christianson

This purpose of this write-up is to share an idea for accurate computation of Laplace eigenvalues on a broad class of smooth domains. We represent the eigenfunction $u$ as a linear combination of eigenfunctions corresponding to the common…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Pavel Grinfeld

In this note we analyze how perturbations of a ball $\mathfrak{B}_r \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ behaves in terms of their first (non-trivial) Neumann and Dirichlet $\infty-$eigenvalues when a volume constraint $\\mathscr{L}^n(\Omega) =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Joao V. da Silva , Julio D. Rossi , Ariel M. Salort

We study the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, with $n\geq 2$. In particular, we generalize and improve upper bounds for the Riesz means of order $\sigma\geq 3/2$ established in an article by…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Simon Larson

In this paper we investigate the behavior of the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian on sets in $\mathbb{R}^N$ whose first eigenvalue is close to the one of the ball with the same volume. In particular in our main Theorem we prove that,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Dario Mazzoleni , Aldo Pratelli

This paper is concerned with the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem for Laplace operator in a bounded domain with periodic perforation in the case of small volume. We obtain the optimal quantitative error estimates independent of the spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Zhongwei Shen , Jinping Zhuge

On a convex bounded Euclidean domain, the ground state for the Laplacian with Neumann boundary conditions is a constant, while the Dirichlet ground state is log-concave. The Robin eigenvalue problem can be considered as interpolating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Ben Andrews , Julie Clutterbuck , Daniel Hauer

We study the asymptotic behavior of the principal eigenvector and eigenvalue of the random conductance Laplacian in a large domain of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ ($d\geq 2$) with zero Dirichlet condition. We assume that the conductances $w$ are positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Franziska Flegel

For a family of elliptic operators with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients, we study the convergence rates for Dirichlet eigenvalues and bounds of the normal derivatives of Dirichlet eigenfunctions. The results rely on an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-26 Carlos E. Kenig , Fanghua Lin , Zhongwei Shen

The behavior of Laplacian eigenfunctions in domains with branches is investigated. If an eigenvalue is below a threshold which is determined by the shape of the branch, the associated eigenfunction is proved to exponentially decay inside…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Andrey Delitsyn , Binh-Thanh Nguyen , Denis S. Grebenkov

The robustness of manifold learning methods is often predicated on the stability of the Neumann Laplacian eigenfunctions under deformations of the assumed underlying domain. Indeed, many manifold learning methods are based on approximating…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Nicholas F. Marshall

In this paper, we prove that the first (positive) Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator \[ L(u)=\Delta u-(\nabla u,x), \] is strongly log-concave if the domain is bounded and convex, which improves the conclusion in [6].…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Lei Qin

In this paper, we obtain a sharp upper bound for the sum of the first $k$-th eigenvalues for this Dirichlet problem of poly-Laplacian with any order, which is viewed as an extension of the result due to Cheng and Wei (Journal of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Lingzhong Zeng

The fundamental gap of a domain is the difference between the first two eigenvalues of the Laplace operator. In a series of recent and celebrated works, it was shown that for convex domains in $\mathbb R^n$ and $\mathbb S^n$ with Dirichlet…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Gabriel Khan , Malik Tuerkoen , Guofang Wei

We study eigenvalues of general scalar Dirichlet polyharmonic problems in domains in $\mathbb R^{d}$. We first prove a number of inequalities satisfied by the eigenvalues on general domains, depending on the relations between the orders of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Davide Buoso , Pedro Freitas

We prove sharp Dirichlet eigenvalue inequalities for planar triangles. We settle a conjecture of Laugesen and Siudeja by showing that the equilateral triangle uniquely minimizes a scale-invariant functional of the first Dirichlet…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Ryoki Endo , Xuefeng Liu , Phanuel Mariano

We consider a family of domains $(\Omega_N)_{N>0}$ obtained by attaching an $N\times 1$ rectangle to a fixed set $\Omega_0 = \{(x,y): 0<y<1, -\phi(y)<x<0\}$, for a Lipschitz function $\phi\geq 0$. We derive full asymptotic expansions, as…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-10-22 Daniel Grieser , David Jerison

The fundamental gap is the difference between the first two Dirichlet eigenvalues of a Schr\"odinger operator (and the Laplacian, in particular). For horoconvex domains in hyperbolic space, Nguyen, Stancu and Wei conjectured that it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Gabriel Khan , Malik Tuerkoen

This paper aims to show that, in the limit of strong magnetic fields, the optimal domains for eigenvalues of magnetic Laplacians tend to exhibit symmetry. We establish several asymptotic bounds on magnetic eigenvalues to support this…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Léo Morin

Sharp upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a surface of a fixed area are known only in genera zero and one. We investigate the genus two case and conjecture that the first eigenvalue is maximized on a singular surface…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Jakobson , M. Levitin , N. Nadirashvili , N. Nigam , I. Polterovich