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We consider the relationship of the geometry of compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary to the first nonzero eigenvalue sigma_1 of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (Steklov eigenvalue). For surfaces Sigma with genus gamma and k boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We prove existence and regularity of metrics on a surface with boundary which maximize sigma_1 L where sigma_1 is the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue and L the boundary length. We show that such metrics arise as the induced metrics on free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We introduce the Steklov flows on finite trees, i.e. the flows (or currents) associated with the Steklov problem. By constructing appropriate Steklov flows, we prove the monotonicity and rigidity of the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalues on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Zunwu He , Bobo Hua

We investigate the question of sharp upper bounds for the Steklov eigenvalues of a hypersurface of revolution of the Euclidean space with two boundary components isometric to two copies of $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$. For the case of the first non…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Léonard Tschanz

Given a compact surface with boundary, we introduce a family of functionals on the space of its Riemannian metrics, defined via eigenvalues of a Steklov-type problem. We prove that each such functional is uniformly bounded from above, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Vanderson Lima , Ana Menezes

On any compact manifold of dimension $n\geq3$ with boundary, we prescibe any finite part of the Steklov spectrum whithin a given conformal class. In particular, we prescribe the multiplicity of the first eigenvalues. On a compact surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Pierre Jammes

We prove a monotonicity identity for compact surfaces with free boundaries inside the boundary of unit ball in $\mathbb R^n$ that have square integrable mean curvature. As one consequence we obtain a Li-Yau type inequality in this setting,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Alexander Volkmann

We give lower bounds for the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue on connected graphs. These bounds depend on the extrinsic diameter of the boundary and not on the diameter of the graph. We obtain a lower bound which is sharp when the cardinal…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Hélène Perrin

We prove sharp upper and lower bounds for the nodal length of Steklov eigenfunctions on real-analytic Riemannian surfaces with boundary. The argument involves frequency function methods for harmonic functions in the interior of the surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Iosif Polterovich , David A. Sher , John A. Toth

In this article, we give computable lower bounds for the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue $\sigma_1$ of a compact connected 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ with several cylindrical boundary components. These estimates show how the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Hélène Perrin

In the present paper, we study the variational properties of Steklov transmission eigenvalues, which can be seen as eigenvalues of the sum of two Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators on two different sides of a given curve contained in a surface.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Mikhail Karpukhin , Alain Didier Noutchegueme

In this paper we develop an extremal eigenvalue approach to the problem of construction of free boundary minimal surfaces in the product of Euclidean balls of chosen radii. The extremal problem involves a linear combination of normalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jaigyoung Choe , Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We obtain geometric lower bounds for the low Steklov eigenvalues of finite-volume hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary. The bounds we obtain depend on the length of a shortest multi-geodesic disconnecting the surfaces into connected…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Asma Hassannezhad , Antoine Métras , Hélène Perrin

In this paper we find an upper bound for the first Steklov eigenvalue for a surface of revolution with boundary consisting of two spheres of different radii. Moreover, we prove that in some cases this boundary is sharp.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Denis Selutckii

We investigate the Steklov eigenvalue problem in an exterior Euclidean domain. First, we present several formulations of this problem and establish the equivalences between them. Next, we examine various properties of the exterior Steklov…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Lukas Bundrock , Alexandre Girouard , Denis S. Grebenkov , Michael Levitin , Iosif Polterovich

We obtain precise asymptotics for the Steklov eigenvalues on a compact Riemannian surface with boundary. It is shown that the number of connected components of the boundary, as well as their lengths, are invariants of the Steklov spectrum.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Alexandre Girouard , Leonid Parnovski , Iosif Polterovich , David A. Sher

In this paper, we study the higher Steklov eigenvalues of graphs on surfaces. We obtain the upper bound of higher Steklov eigenvalues of a finite graph $G$ with boundary $B$ and genus $g$ by using metrical deformation via probability flows.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Xiongfeng Zhan , Zhe You

We prove that, among weighted isotropic perimeters, only constant multiples of the Euclidean perimeter satisfy the monotonicity property on nested convex bodies. Although the analogous result fails for general weighted anisotropic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Giorgio Saracco , Giorgio Stefani

We obtain sharp upper bounds for the first two nonzero Steklov eigenvalues among bounded domains in Euclidean spaces of dimension $d \geq 7$ under a natural normalization involving volume and boundary measure. These bounds are derived from…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Denis Vinokurov

We consider the first positive Steklov eigenvalue on planar domains. First, we provide an example of a planar domain for which a first eigenfunction has a closed nodal line. Second, we establish a lower bound for the first positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Azahara DelaTorre , Gabriele Mancini , Angela Pistoia , Luigi Provenzano