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The Graetz problem is a convection-diffusion equation in a pipe invariant along a direction. The contribution of the present work is to propose a mathematical analysis of the Neumann, Robin and periodic boundary condition on the boundary of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Valention Debarnot , Jérôme Fehrenbach , Frédéric de Gournay , Léo Martire

In this paper, we show that equality in Courant's nodal domain theorem can only be reached for a finite number of eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian, in the case of an open, bounded and connected set in R n with a C 1,1 boundary. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Corentin Léna

On compact Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and smooth (possibly empty), convex (or mean convex) boundary, if the sharp Li-Yau type gradient estimate of an Neumann (or Dirichlet) eigenfunction holds at some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Guoyi Xu , Xiaolong Xue

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of a class of nonlinear variational problems with Robin-type boundary conditions on a bounded Lipschitz domain. The energy functional contains a bulk term (the $p$-norm of the gradient), a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Roberto Ognibene

In this paper we prove an optimal upper bound for the first eigenvalue of a Robin-Neumann boundary value problem for the p-Laplacian operator in domains with convex holes. An analogous estimate is obtained for the corresponding torsional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Francesco Della Pietra , Gianpaolo Piscitelli

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 aim of this work is to characterize the asymptotic behaviour of the first eigenfunction of the generalised p-Laplace operator with mixed (Dirichlet and Neumann) boundary conditions in cylindrical domains when the length of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Rama Rawat , Haripada Roy , Prosenjit Roy

We consider an eigenvalue problem for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger type operator with the Robin boundary condition as given below. \begin{equation*} \label{ab-Robin p-Laplace evp with potential term_intro} \left\{ \begin{split}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ardra A

This article investigates a spectral problem of the Laplace operator in a two-dimensional bounded domain perforated by a small arbitrary star-shaped hole and on the smooth boundary of which the Neumann boundary condition is imposed. It is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Ly Hong Hai

We prove a generalization of the second variation formula of the Robin function associated to a smooth variation of domains in C^N to the case of the c-Robin function associated to a smooth variation of domains in a complex manifold M…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Kang-Tae Kim , Norman Levenberg , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

We consider the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1(\Omega,\sigma)$ of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions on a compact Riemannian manifold $\Omega$ with smooth boundary, $\sigma\in\bf R$ being the Robin boundary parameter. When $\sigma>0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Alessandro Savo

This paper is devoted to the Neumann-Kirchhoff Laplacian on a finite metric graph. We prove an index theorem relating the nodal deficiency of an eigenfunction with (1) the Morse index of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, (2) its positive index…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Ram Band , Marina Prokhorova , Gilad Sofer

We analyze strict positivity at the boundary for nonnegative solutions of Robin problems in general (non-smooth) domains, e.g. open sets with rectifiable topological boundaries having finite Hausdorff measure. This question was raised by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Dorin Bucur , Alessandro Giacomini , Mickaël Nahon

We determine accurate asymptotics of the lowest eigenvalue for the Laplace operator with a smooth magnetic field and Robin boundary conditions in a smooth 3D domain, when the Robin parameter tends to $+\infty$. Our results identify a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar , Nicolas Raymond

We establish two universal inequalities for Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a Euclidean convex domain.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Kei Funano

We study the Laplacian with zero magnetic field acting on complex functions of a planar domain $\Omega$, with magnetic Neumann boundary conditions. If $\Omega$ is simply connected then the spectrum reduces to the spectrum of the usual…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Bruno Colbois , Alessandro Savo

We prove the Pleijel theorem in non-collapsed RCD spaces, providing an asymptotic upper bound on the number of nodal domains of Laplacian eigenfunctions. As a consequence, we obtain that the Courant nodal domain theorem holds except at most…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Nicolò De Ponti , Sara Farinelli , Ivan Yuri Violo

We study the family of operators $\{\mathcal{R}_a\}_{a\in [0,+\infty)}$ associated to the Robin-type problems in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u = f & \text{in } \Omega, \\ 2 \bar \nu \partial_{\bar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Joaquim Duran

We prove H\"older continuity up to the boundary for solutions of quasi-linear degenerate elliptic problems in divergence form, not necessarily of variational type, on Lipschitz domains with Neumann and Robin boundary conditions. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-28 Robin Nittka

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