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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…

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The paper considers the general form of self-adjoint boundary value problems for momentum operators with nonlocal potentials. We give an analysis of the eigenvalue distribution as zeros of the characteristic functions, for which their…

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In 1970, Lawson solved the topological realization problem for minimal surfaces in the sphere, showing that any closed orientable surface can be minimally embedded in $\mathbb{S}^3$. The analogous problem for surfaces with boundary was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mikhail Karpukhin , Robert Kusner , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

We consider the Jacobi operator, defined on a closed oriented hypersurfaces immersed in the Euclidean space with the same volume of the unit sphere. We show a local generalization for the classical result of the Willmore functional for the…

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We study the eigenvalue problem for the Riemannian Pucci operator on geodesic balls. We establish upper and lower bounds for the principal Pucci eigenvalues depending on the curvature, extending Cheng's eigenvalue comparison theorem for the…

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In the following work, we obtain a lower bound for the first Neumann eingevalue of the drift Laplacian $\Delta^{\varphi}$ for a family of properly embedded $[\varphi,\vec{e}_{3}]$-minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with concave function…

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In this paper we study bounds for the first eigenvalue of the Paneitz operator $P$ and its associated third-order boundary operator $B^3$ on four-manifolds. We restrict to orientable, simply connected, locally confomally flat manifolds that…

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In this paper the first and second domain variation for functionals related to elliptic boundary and eigenvalue problems with Robin boundary conditions is computed. Minimality and maximality properties of the ball among nearly circular…

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Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$ be a smooth bounded domain and $m\in C(\overline{\Omega})$ be a sign-changing weight function. For $1<p<\infty$, consider the eigenvalue problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array} [c]{ll} -\Delta_{p}u=\lambda…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Uriel Kaufmann , Julio D. Rossi , Joana Terra

In this paper we prove that a flat free-boundary minimal $n$-disk, $n\geq3$, in the unit Euclidean ball $B^{n+1}$ is the unique compact free boundary minimal hypersurface in the unit Euclidean ball which the squared norm of the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Ezequiel Barbosa , Edno Pereira , Rosivaldo Antônio Gonçalves

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 consider smooth bounded surfaces with a smooth boundary and a prescribed background metric g_0. We now consider all metrics g conformal to g_0 which have a prescribed volume M. We now minimize the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator…

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The i-th eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a surface can be viewed as a functional on the space of Riemannian metrics of fixed area. Extremal points of these functionals correspond to surfaces admitting minimal isometric immersions into…

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We investigate the following Robin eigenvalue problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u=\mu u\,\, &\text{in}\,\, B,\\ \partial_\texttt{n} u+\alpha u=0 &\text{on}\,\, \partial B \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Guowei Dai , Yingxin Sun

In this paper, by meticulously constructing a minimizing sequence within a suitable Sobolev space and leveraging the variational principle, we establish that the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on an embedded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Lingzhong Zeng

In the present paper, we deal with a fourth-order boundary value problem problem with eigenparameter dependent boundary conditions and transmission conditions at a interior point. A self-adjoint linear operator A is defined in a suitable…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Erdoğan Şen , Serkan Araci , Mehmet Acikgoz

For any compact surface $\Sigma$ with smooth, non-empty boundary, we construct a free boundary minimal immersion into a Euclidean Ball $\mathbb{B}^N$ where $N$ is controlled in terms of the topology of $\Sigma$. We obtain these as…

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