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The celebrated conjecture by Payne, P\'{o}lya and Weinberger (1956) states that for the fixed membrane problem, the ratio of the first two eigenvalues, $\lambda_2/\lambda_1$, is maximized by a disk. A more general dimensional version of…

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We consider the Laplacian with attractive Robin boundary conditions, \[ Q^\Omega_\alpha u=-\Delta u, \quad \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial n}=\alpha u \text{ on } \partial\Omega, \] in a class of bounded smooth domains…

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In this article, we study Steklov eigenvalues and mixed Steklov Neumann eigenvalues on a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n \geq 2$, having a spherical hole. We focus on two main results related to Steklov eigenvalues. First, we…

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