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This article is the continuation of our first work on the determination of the cases where there is equality in Courant's Nodal Domain theorem in the case of a Robin boundary condition (with Robin parameter $h$). For the square, our first…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Katie Gittins , Bernard Helffer

We consider the cases where there is equality in Courant's nodal domain theorem for the Laplacian with a Robin boundary condition on the square. In our previous two papers, we treated the cases where the Robin parameter $h>0$ is large,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Katie Gittins , Bernard Helffer

We consider the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on an open, bounded, connected set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $C^2$ boundary, with a Neumann boundary condition or a Robin boundary condition. We obtain upper bounds for those eigenvalues that have a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Katie Gittins , Corentin Léna

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

We consider the Courant-sharp eigenvalues of the Robin Laplacian for bounded, connected, open sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n \geq 2$, with Lipschitz boundary. We prove Pleijel's theorem which implies that there are only finitely many…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Katie Gittins , Asma Hassannezhad , Corentin Léna , David Sher

This paper is devoted to the refine analysis of Courant's theorem for the Dirichlet Laplacian. Many papers (and some of them quite recent) have investigated in which cases this inequality in Courant's theorem is an equality: Pleijel,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Bernard Helffer , Rola Kiwan

{\AA} Pleijel has proved that in the case of the Laplacian on the square with Neumann condition, the equality in the Courant nodal theorem (Courant sharp situation) can only be true for a finite number of eigenvalues. We identify five…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Bernard Helffer , Mikael Persson Sundqvist

\AA. Pleijel (1956) has proved that in the case of the Laplacian with Dirichlet condition, the equality in the Courant nodal theorem (Courant sharp situation) can only be true for a finite number of eigenvalues when the dimension is $\geq…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Bernard Helffer , Mikael Persson Sundqvist

In this paper, we determine, in the case of the Laplacian on the flat three-dimensional torus $(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})^3$, all the eigenvalues having an eigenfunction which satisfies the Courant nodal domains theorem with equality…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Corentin Léna

The paper addresses the the number of nodal domains for eigenfunctions of Schr\"{o}dinger operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions in bounded domains. In dimension one, the $n$th eigenfunction has $n$ nodal domains. The Courant Theorem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Gregory Berkolaiko , Peter Kuchment , Uzy Smilansky

We prove an improved Pleijel nodal domain theorem for the Robin eigenvalue problem. In particular we remove the restriction, imposed in previous work, that the Robin parameter be non-negative. We also improve the upper bound in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Asma Hassannezhad , David Sher

In this paper, we revisit Courant's nodal domain theorem for the Dirichlet eigenfunctions of a square membrane, and the analyses of A. Stern and {\AA}. Pleijel.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Pierre Bérard , Bernard Helffer

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

According to Courant's theorem, an eigenfunction as\-sociated with the $n$-th eigenvalue $\lambda\_n$ has at most $n$ nodal domains. A footnote in the book of Courant and Hilbert, states that the same assertion is true for any linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Pierre Bérard , Bernard Helffer

In this paper, we successfully establish a Courant-type nodal domain theorem for both the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem and the closed eigenvalue problem of the Witten-Laplacian. Moreover, we also characterize the properties of the nodal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ruifeng Chen , Jing Mao , Chuanxi Wu

We obtain upper bounds on the number of nodal domains of Laplace eigenfunctions on chain domains with Neumann boundary conditions. The chain domains consist of a family of planar domains, with piecewise smooth boundary, that are joined by…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Thomas Beck , Yaiza Canzani , Jeremy L. Marzuola

On a convex bounded Euclidean domain, the ground state for the Laplacian with Neumann boundary conditions is a constant, while the Dirichlet ground state is log-concave. The Robin eigenvalue problem can be considered as interpolating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Ben Andrews , Julie Clutterbuck , Daniel Hauer

In this paper, we determine, in the case of the Laplacian on the flat two-dimensional torus (R/Z) 2 , all the eigenvalues having an eigenfunction which satisfies Courant's theorem with equality (Courant-sharp situation). Following the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Corentin Léna

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\ge 2,$ be a bounded domain with an outward power-like peak which is assumed not too sharp in a suitable sense. We consider the Laplacian $u\mapsto -\Delta u$ in $\Omega$ with the Robin boundary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Hynek Kovarik , Konstantin Pankrashkin

Let $(M, g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold, where g is $C^1$-smooth metric. Consider the sequence of eigenfunctions $u_k$ of the Laplace operator on M. Let $B$ be a ball on $M$. We prove a sharp estimate of the number of nodal domains of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-06 S. Chanillo , A. Logunov , E. Malinnikova , D. Mangoubi
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