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In this paper, we study the restrictions of both the harmonic functions and the eigenfunctions of the symmetric Laplacian to edges of pre-gaskets contained in the Sierpinski gasket. For a harmonic function, its restriction to any edge is…

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In this paper we introduce two new fractional versions of the Laplacian. The first one is based on the classical formula that writes the usual Laplacian as the sum of the eigenvalues of the Hessian. The second one comes from looking at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Julio D. Rossi , Jorge Ruiz-Cases

In this paper, we prove that the first (positive) Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator \[ L(u)=\Delta u-(\nabla u,x), \] is strongly log-concave if the domain is bounded and convex, which improves the conclusion in [6].…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Lei Qin

In [SWW16, HW17] it is shown that the difference of the first two eigenvalues of the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary condition on convex domain with diameter $D$ of sphere $\mathbb S^n$ is $\geq 3 \frac{\pi^2}{D^2}$ when $n \geq 3$. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Xianzhe Dai , Shoo Seto , Guofang Wei

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

Given a Schr\"odinger operator with a real-valued potential on a bounded, convex domain or a bounded interval we prove inequalities between the eigenvalues corresponding to Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions, respectively. The…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Jonathan Rohleder

We add a divergence-free drift with increasing magnitude to the fractional Laplacian on a bounded smooth domain, and discuss the behavior of the principal eigenvalue for the Dirichlet problem. The eigenvalue remains bounded if and only if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Krzysztof Bogdan , Tomasz Komorowski

This work considers the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the weighted Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g,\partial M)$ under the singular perturbation. This perturbation involves the imposition of vanishing Dirichlet boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Medet Nursultanov , William Trad , Justin Tzou , Leo Tzou

We consider an eigenvalue problem for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger type operator with the Robin boundary condition as given below. \begin{equation*} \label{ab-Robin p-Laplace evp with potential term_intro} \left\{ \begin{split}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ardra A

We prove that the first (nontrivial) Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator $$ L(u)=\Delta u-\langle\nabla u,x\rangle\,, $$ as a function of the domain, is convex with respect to the Minkowski addition, and we characterize…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Andrea Colesanti , Elisa Francini , Galyna Livshyts , Paolo Salani

In this paper, we study monotonicity for the first eigenvalue of a class of $(p,q)$-Laplacian. We find the first variation formula for the first eigenvalue of $(p,q)$-Laplacian on a closed Riemannian manifold evolving by the Ricci-harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Shahroud Azami

We extend some classical inequalities between the Dirichlet and Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian to the context of mixed Steklov--Dirichlet and Steklov--Neumann eigenvalue problems. The latter one is also known as the sloshing problem,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-02 R. Banuelos , T. Kulczycki , I. Polterovich , B. Siudeja

We prove lower bound for the first closed or Neumann nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a compact quaternion-K\"ahler manifold in terms of dimension, diameter, and scalar curvature lower bound. It is derived as large time implication of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang

Recent work in the literature has studied fourth-order elliptic operators on manifolds with boundary. This paper proves that, in the case of the squared Laplace operator, the boundary conditions which require that the eigenfunctions and…

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We construct the asymptotic approximation to the first eigenvalue and corresponding eigensolution of Laplace's operator inside a domain containing a cloud of small rigid inclusions. The separation of the small inclusions is characterised by…

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The main purpose of this paper is to address some questions concerning boundary value problems related to the Laplacian and bi-Laplacian operators, set in the framework of classical $H^s$ Sobolev spaces on a bounded Lipschitz domain of R^N.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Cherif Amrouche , Mohand Moussaoui

The Steklov problem on a compact Lipschitz domain is to find harmonic functions on the interior whose outward normal derivative on the boundary is some multiple (eigenvalue) of its trace on the boundary. These eigenvalues form the Steklov…

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We extend monotonicity-based inversion methods to an inverse coefficient problem for the isotropic nonlocal elliptic equation \[ (-\nabla \cdot \sigma \nabla)^s u = 0 \quad \text{in } \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n, \] where $0 < s < 1$, $n…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Yi-Hsuan Lin

We prove a lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the sub-Laplacian on sub-Riemannian manifolds with transverse symmetries. When the manifold is of H-type, we obtain a corresponding rigidity result: If the optimal lower bound for the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-31 Fabrice Baudoin , Bumsik Kim

We investigate the behavior of eigenvalues for a magnetic Aharonov-Bohm operator with half-integer circulation and Dirichlet boundary conditions in a planar domain. We provide sharp asymptotics for eigenvalues as the pole is moving in the…

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