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In this paper we consider a Robin-type Laplace operator on bounded domains. We study the dependence of its lowest eigenvalue on the boundary conditions and its asymptotic behavior in shrinking and expanding domains. For convex domains we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 Hynek Kovarik

This article tackles the spectral analysis of the Robin Laplacian on a smooth bounded two-dimensional domain in the presence of a constant magnetic field. In the semiclassical limit, a uniform description of the spectrum located between the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Rayan Fahs , Loïc Le Treust , Nicolas Raymond , San Vu Ngoc

We prove the existence of nontrivial unbounded domains $\O$ in the Euclidean space $\R^d$ for which the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on $\Omega$ admits sign-changing eigenfunctions with constant Neumann values on $\partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Ignace Aristide Minlend

We construct a multiply connected domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ for which the second eigenfunction of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions has an interior nodal line. In the process, we adapt a bound of Donnelly-Fefferman type to obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-27 J. B. Kennedy

We consider the eigenvalue problem for the Laplace operator in a planar domain which can be decomposed into a bounded domain of arbitrary shape and elongated \branches" of variable cross-sectional profiles. When the eigenvalue is smaller…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Binh T. Nguyen , Andrey L. Delytsin , Denis S. Grebenkov

On a bounded Lipschitz domain we consider two selfadjoint operator realizations of the same second order elliptic differential expression subject to Robin boundary conditions, where the coefficients in the boundary conditions are functions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Jonathan Rohleder

This is a note on a recent paper of De Simoi-Kaloshin-Wei \cite{DKW}. We show that using their results combined with wave trace invariants of Guillemin-Melrose and the heat trace invariants of Zayed for the Laplacian with Robin boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Hamid Hezari

We study second order parabolic equations on Lipschitz domains subject to inhomogeneous Neumann (or, more generally, Robin) boundary conditions. We prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions and their continuity up to the boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Robin Nittka

In this paper we establish a Hardy inequality for Laplace operators with Robin boundary conditions. For convex domains, in particular, we show explicitly how the corresponding Hardy weight depends on the coefficient of the Robin boundary…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Hynek Kovarik , Ari Laptev

Given a convex domain and its convex sub-domain we prove a variant of domain monotonicity for the Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian. As an application of our method we also obtain an upper bound for Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Kei Funano

We consider a nonlinear eigenvalue problem under Robin boundary conditions in a domain with (possibly noncompact) smooth boundary. The problem involves a weighted p-Laplacian operator and subcritical nonlinearities satisfying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Kanishka Perera , Patrizia Pucci , Csaba Varga

We consider the nonlinear eigenvalue problem, with Dirichlet boundary condition, for a class of very degenerate elliptic operators, with the aim to show that, at least for square type domains having fixed volume, the symmetry of the domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Isabeau Birindelli , Giulio Galise , Hitoshi Ishii

In this paper we address the uniqueness issue in the classical Robin inverse problem on a Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset\RR^n$, with $L^\infty$ Robin coefficient, $L^2$ Neumann data and isotropic conductivity of class $W^{1,r}(\Omega)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Laurent Baratchart , Laurent Bourgeois , Juliette Leblond

This paper deals with eigenelements of the Laplacian in bounded domains, under Robin boundary conditions, without any assumption on the sign of the Robin parameter. We quantify the asymptotics of the variation of simple eigenvalues under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Veronica Felli , Prasun Roychowdhury , Giovanni Siclari

The eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on bounded, planar, convex domains with mixed boundary conditions is considered, where a Dirichlet boundary condition is imposed on a part of the boundary and a Neumann boundary condition on its…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Nausica Aldeghi , Jonathan Rohleder

We study the behaviour of the first eigenfunction of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a planar convex domain near its maximum. We show that the eccentricity and orientation of the superlevel sets of the eigenfunction stabilise as they approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Thomas Beck

We study the spectrum of the Laplacian on the hemisphere with Robin boundary conditions. It is found that the eigenvalues fall into small clusters around the Neumann spectrum, and satisfy a Szeg\H{o} type limit theorem. Sharp upper and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Zeév Rudnick , Igor Wigman

Being motivated by the theory of flexible polyhedra, we study the Dirichlet and Neumann eigenvalues for the Laplace operator in special bounded domains of Euclidean $d$-space. The boundary of such a domain is an embedded simplicial complex…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Victor Alexandrov

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

Our main result is that if a generic convex domain in $\R^n$ collapses to a domain in $\R^{n-1}$, then the difference between the first two Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Euclidean Laplacian, known as the fundamental gap, diverges. The…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Zhiqin Lu , Julie Rowlett