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In this article, we study the asymptotics of Dirichlet eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ in bounded open Lipschitz sets in the small order limit $s \to 0^+$. While it is easy to see that all…

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We consider DPG methods with optimal test functions and broken test spaces based on ultra-weak formulations of general second order elliptic problems. Under some assumptions on the regularity of solutions of the model problem and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Thomas Führer

The sum of the first n energy levels of the planar Laplacian with constant magnetic field of given total flux is shown to be maximal among triangles for the equilateral triangle, under normalization of the ratio (moment of inertia)/(area)^3…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Richard S. Laugesen , Jian Liang , Arindam Roy

In this paper we present an iterative method, inspired by the inverse iteration with shift technique of finite linear algebra, designed to find the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-02 Rodney Josué Biezuner , Grey Ercole , Breno Loureiro Giacchini , Eder Marinho Martins

The elastic Neumann--Poincar\'e operator is a boundary integral operator associated with the Lam\'e system of linear elasticity. It is known that if the boundary of a planar domain is smooth enough, it has eigenvalues converging to two…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Kazunori Ando , Hyeonbae Kang , Yoshihisa Miyanishi

Second-order estimates are established for solutions to the $p$-Laplace system with right-hand side in $L^2$. The nonlinear expression of the gradient under the divergence operator is shown to belong to $W^{1,2}$, and hence to enjoy the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Andrea Cianchi , Vladimir Maz'ya

We establish a priori error bounds for monotone stabilized finite element discretizations of stationary second-order mean field games (MFG) on Lipschitz polytopal domains. Under suitable hypotheses, we prove that the approximation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

We study a discrete and continuous version of the spectral Dirichlet problem in an open bounded connected set $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, in dimension $d\geq 2$. More precisely, consider the simple random walk on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ killed…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Quentin Berger , Nicolas Bouchot

We derive ground state eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of various relativistic elliptic integrable models. The models we discuss appear in computations of superconformal indices of four-dimensional theories obtained by compactifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Belal Nazzal , Anton Nedelin , Shlomo S. Razamat

We consider the localization of eigenfunctions for the operator $L=-\mbox{div} A \nabla + V$ on a Lipschitz domain $\Omega$ and, more generally, on manifolds with and without boundary. In earlier work, two authors of the present paper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Douglas N. Arnold , Guy David , Marcel Filoche , David Jerison , Svitlana Mayboroda

Inspired by a recent result of Funano's, we provide a sharp quantitative comparison result between the first nontrivial eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian on bounded convex domains $\Omega_{1} \subset \Omega_{2}$ in any dimension $d$…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Pedro Freitas , James B. Kennedy

We study the low-lying eigenvalues of the semiclassical Robin Laplacian in a smooth planar domain symmetric with respect to an axis. In the case when the curvature of the boundary of the domain attains its maximum at exactly two points away…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar , Nicolas Raymond

This paper investigates the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the $p$-Laplacian in Riemannian manifolds. Firstly, we establish a lower bound for this eigenvalue under the condition that the domain includes a specific function which fulfills…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xiaoshang Jin

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in a family of narrow unbounded domains. As the width of these domains goes to 0, we study the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues that lie below the essential spectrum and the asymptotic behavior of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Leonid Friedlander , Michael Solomyak

We extend the standard notion of self-concordance to non-convex optimization and develop a family of second-order algorithms with global convergence guarantees. In particular, two function classes -- \textit{weakly self-concordant}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Donald Goldfarb , Lexiao Lai , Tianyi Lin , Jiayu Zhang

We are interested in the question of stability in the field of shape optimization, with focus on the strategy using second order shape derivative. More precisely, we identify structural hypotheses on the hessian of the considered shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Marc Dambrine , Jimmy Lamboley , M Dambrine-J

By introducing a weight function to the Laplace operator, Bakry and \'Emery defined the "drift Laplacian" to study diffusion processes. Our first main result is that, given a Bakry-\'Emery manifold, there is a naturally associated family of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Zhiqin Lu , Julie Rowlett

We obtain upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Laplacian associated to a closed potential $1$-form (hence, with zero magnetic field) acting on complex functions of a planar domain $\Omega$, with magnetic Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Bruno Colbois , Alessandro Savo

In this paper, we considered the spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian $\Delta_\epsilon$ on $\Omega_\epsilon=\{(x,y): -l_1<x<l_2, 0<y<\epsilon h(x)]\}$ where $ l_1,l_2>0$ and $h(x)$ is a positive analytic function having $0$ the only point…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Lanbo Fang

In this paper, we prove that the first eigenfunction of the Laplacian for a horo-convex domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb H^n$ is super log-concave when $\text{diam}(\Omega)$ is not large. Our result is optimal in the sense that there are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Guofang Wei , Ling Xiao