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We consider a constrained optimization problem arising from the study of the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains. The optimization problem provides an approximation of the solution in a bounded computational domain. In this paper we…

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This paper considers how the eigenvalues of the Neumann problem for an elliptic operator depend on the domain. The proximity of two domains is measured in terms of the norm of the difference between the two resolvents corresponding to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Vladimir Kozlov , Johan Thim

A novel perturbative method, proposed by Panda {\it et al.} [1] to solve the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions, is extended to three dimensions for general boundary surfaces. Although a few numerical works are available in the literature…

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We review recent advances in solving problems of mathematical physics on domains with irregular boundaries in Rn. We distinguish two frameworks: a measure-free approach in the image of the trace operator spaces for extension domains and an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Anna Rozanova-Pierrat

In this paper, we investigate the symmetry properties of positive solutions $u$ to a semilinear elliptic equation under mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions in symmetric domains. First, we establish a maximum principle tailored to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ruofei Yao

We obtain conditions for the differentiability of weak solutions for a second-order uniformly elliptic equation in divergence form with a homogeneous co-normal boundary condition. The modulus of continuity for the coefficients is assumed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Robert McOwen , Vladimir Maz'ya

For smooth bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}$, we prove upper and lower $L^2$ bounds on the boundary data of Neumann eigenfunctions, and prove quasi-orthogonality of this boundary data in a spectral window. The bounds are tight in the sense…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Alex Barnett , Andrew Hassell , Melissa Tacy

We establish a rigidity theorem for annular sector-like domains in the setting of overdetermined elliptic problems on model Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, if such a domain admits a solution to the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 João Marcos do Ó , Jaqueline de Lima , Márcio Santos

We consider a quasilinear elliptic equation involving a first order term, under zero Dirichlet boundary condition in half spaces. We prove that any positive solution is monotone increasing w.r.t. the direction orthogonal to the boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Alberto Farina , Luigi Montoro , Giuseppe Riey , Berardino Sciunzi

The Laplacian $\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ has the property that it can explicitly be expressed in terms of $\Lambda$, the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map of the unit ball, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Romain Speciel

We consider eigenvalue problems for elliptic operators of arbitrary order $2m$ subject to Neumann boundary conditions on bounded domains of the Euclidean $N$-dimensional space. We study the dependence of the eigenvalues upon variations of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Bruno Colbois , Luigi Provenzano

We investigate the continuity of boundary operators, such as the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map, with respect to the coefficient matrices of the underlying elliptic equations. We show that for nonsmooth coefficients the correct notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Luca Rondi

In this paper, we study the quantitative unique continuation property of the second-order elliptic operators under the vanishing Neumann boundary condition over $C^{1,\alpha}$ or convex domains in two dimensions. We establish the optimal…

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We prove a one-dimensional symmetry result for a weighted Dirichlet-to-Neumann problem arising in a model for water waves in dimension 3. More precisely we prove that minimizers and bounded monotone solutions depend on only one Euclidean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Eleonora Cinti , Pietro Miraglio , Enrico Valdinoci

This paper considers the Helmholtz problem in the exterior of a ball with Dirichlet boundary conditions and radiation conditions imposed at infinity. The differential Helmholtz operator depends on the complex wavenumber with non-negative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Benedikt Gräßle , Stefan A. Sauter

The study of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map and the associated Steklov problem for the Laplace equation has been a central topic in spectral geometry over the past decade. In this survey, we consider a more general framework in which the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Denis S. Grebenkov , Michael Levitin , Iosif Polterovich

An inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain is considered. The problem is to extract information about an unknown obstacle embedded in the domain with unknown impedance boundary condition (the Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Masaru Ikehata

We consider weak distributional solutions to the equation $-\Delta_pu=f(u)$ in half-spaces under zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We assume that the nonlinearity is positive and superlinear at zero. For $p>2$ (the case $1<p\leq2$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Alberto Farina , Luigi Montoro , Berardino Sciunzi

We analyse parallel overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition methods for the Helmholtz equation, where the subdomain problems satisfy first-order absorbing (impedance) transmission conditions, and exchange of information between subdomains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Shihua Gong , Martin J. Gander , Ivan G. Graham , David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence

It is well known that the Fourier series Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) boundary condition can be used to solve the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains. In this work, applying such DtN boundary condition and using the finite element method,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Liwei Xu , Tao Yin