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We introduce Robin boundary conditions for biharmonic operators, which are a model for elastically supported plates and are closely related to the study of spaces of traces of Sobolev functions. We study the dependence of the operator, its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Davide Buoso , James B. Kennedy

We study the structure of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on quantum graphs, with a particular focus on Morse eigenfunctions via nodal and Neumann domains. Building on Courant-type arguments, we establish upper bounds for the number of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Luís Baptista , Matthias Hofmann

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Catherine Bandle , Alfred Wagner

In this paper, we develop a new two-side Robin-Robin domain decomposition method for H(div)-elliptic problem. Numerical results show that the convergence rate of the new algorithm only depends on $H/h$, where $H$ is diameter of subdomains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Na Xuyang

In this paper, we prove a quantitative refinement of the isoperimetric type inequality for the second Robin eigenvalue with negative boundary parameters established by Freitas and Laugesen [Amer.J.Math.143 (2021), no.3, 969-994].Such new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Zhijie Chen , Zhen Song , Wenming Zou

We consider the torsional rigidity and the principal eigenvalue related to the Laplace operator with Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions. The goal is to find upper and lower bounds to products of suitable powers of the quantities above…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Simone Cito , Francesco Solombrino

The spectral gap of the Neumann and Dirichlet Laplacians are each known to have a sharp positive lower bound among convex domains of a given diameter. Between these cases, for each positive value of the Robin parameter an analogous sharp…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Derek Kielty

We investigate the heat kernel with Robin boundary condition and prove comparison theorems for heat kernel on geodesic balls and on minimal submanifolds. We also prove an eigenvalue comparison theorem for the first Robin eigenvalues on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang

In this paper, we prove that the Extended Courant Property fails to be true for certain smooth, strictly convex domains with Neumann boundary condition: there exists a linear combination of a second and a first Neumann eigenfunctions, with…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Pierre Bérard , Bernard Helffer

We study second order parabolic equations on Lipschitz domains subject to inhomogeneous Neumann (or, more generally, Robin) boundary conditions. We prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions and their continuity up to the boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Robin Nittka

We consider the nonlinear eigenvalue problem, with Dirichlet boundary condition, for a class of very degenerate elliptic operators, with the aim to show that, at least for square type domains having fixed volume, the symmetry of the domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Isabeau Birindelli , Giulio Galise , Hitoshi Ishii

Given a compact manifold $\mathcal M$ with boundary of dimension $n\geq 3$ and any integers $K$ and $N$, we show that there exists a metric on $\mathcal M$ for which the first $K$ nonconstant eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Alberto Enciso , Angela Pistoia , Luigi Provenzano

We consider elliptic equations and systems in divergence form with the conormal or the Robin boundary conditions, with small BMO (bounded mean oscillation) or variably partially small BMO coefficients. We propose a new class of domains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Hongjie Dong , Zongyuan Li

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

This paper investigates the link between the Maximum Principle and the sign of the (generalized) principal eigenvalue for elliptic operators in unbounded domains. Our approach covers the cases of Dirichlet, Neumann, and (indefinite) Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Samuel Nordmann

On a bounded Lipschitz domain we consider two selfadjoint operator realizations of the same second order elliptic differential expression subject to Robin boundary conditions, where the coefficients in the boundary conditions are functions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Jonathan Rohleder

We are interested in the number of nodal domains of eigenfunctions of sub-Laplacians on sub-Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we investigate the validity of Pleijel's theorem, which states that, as soon as the dimension is strictly larger…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Rupert L. Frank , Bernard Helffer

Let $\tau_k(\Omega)$ be the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Laplace operator in a bounded domain $\Omega$ of the form $\Omega_{\text{out}} \setminus \overline{B_{\alpha}}$ under the Neumann boundary condition on $\partial \Omega_{\text{out}}$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 T. V. Anoop , Vladimir Bobkov , Pavel Drabek

We consider the problem of the recovery of a Robin coefficient on a part $\gamma \subset \partial \Omega$ of the boundary of a bounded domain $\Omega$ from the principal eigenvalue and the boundary values of the normal derivative of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Matteo Santacesaria , Toshiaki Yachimura

The main purpose of this paper is to prove a sharp Sobolev inequality in an exterior of a convex bounded domain. There are two ingredients in the proof: One is the observation of some new isoperimetric inequalities with partial free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Meijun Zhu