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The paper concerns scattering of plane waves by a bounded obstacle with complex valued impedance boundary conditions. We study the spectrum of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator for small wave numbers and long wave asymptotic behavior of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

We derive a correct first-order perturbation theory in electromagnetism for cases where an interface between two anisotropic dielectric materials is slightly shifted. Most previous perturbative methods give incorrect results for this case,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chris Kottke , Ardavan Farjadpour , Steven G. Johnson

We study impact of a forced symmetry-breaking in boundary conditions on the bifurcation scenario of a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation. We show that for the square domain the orthogonality of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Zhen Mei , Chih-Wen Shih

We construct a multiply connected domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ for which the second eigenfunction of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions has an interior nodal line. In the process, we adapt a bound of Donnelly-Fefferman type to obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-27 J. B. Kennedy

The problem of the effect of two-frequency quasi-periodic perturbations on systems close to arbitrary nonlinear two-dimensional Hamiltonian ones is studied in the case when the corresponding perturbed autonomous systems have a double limit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-24 O. S. Kostromina

We establish a connection between the stability of an eigenvalue under a magnetic perturbation and the number of zeros of the corresponding eigenfunction. Namely, we consider an eigenfunction of discrete Laplacian on a graph and count the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-21 Gregory Berkolaiko

In this Letter, we use a model fluid mechanics experiment to elucidate the impact of curvature heterogeneities on two-dimensional fields deriving from harmonic potential functions. This result is directly relevant to explain the smooth…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-08 Stéphane Guillet , Benjamin Guiselin , Mariem Boughzala , Vassili Desages , Denis Bartolo

Divergence-form operators with stationary random coefficients homogenize over large scales. We investigate the effect of certain perturbations of the medium on the homogenized coefficients. The perturbations that we consider are rare at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-20 Jean-Christophe Mourrat

The level curvature distribution function is studied both analytically and numerically for the case of T-breaking perturbations over the orthogonal ensemble. The leading correction to the shape of the curvature distribution beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Basu , C. M. Canali , V. E. Kravtsov , I. V. Yurkevich

We study a class of Riemannian manifolds which are equipped with a singular metric. In particular we study a domain perturbation problem for the Dirichlet eigenvalues which depends on the best constant in the Hardy Inequality. However, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Mason

We investigate the number of nodal intersections of random Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on the standard two-dimensional flat torus ("arithmetic random waves") with a fixed real-analytic reference curve with nonvanishing curvature. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Zeev Rudnick , Igor Wigman

In this article, we study a model problem featuring a L\'evy process in a domain with semi-transparent boundary by considering the following perturbed fractional Laplacian operator \[\mathscr{L}_{b,q} := (-\Delta)^t +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Sombuddha Bhattacharyya , Tuhin Ghosh , Gunther Uhlmann

The Dirichlet Laplacian in curved tubes of arbitrary cross-section rotating with respect to the Tang frame along infinite curves in Euclidean spaces of arbitrary dimension is investigated. If the reference curve is not straight and its…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Chenaud , P. Duclos , P. Freitas , D. Krejcirik

The first half of this work gives a survey of the fractional Laplacian (and related operators), its restricted Dirichlet realization on a bounded domain, and its nonhomogeneous local boundary conditions, as treated by pseudodifferential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Gerd Grubb

We discuss several properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the $p$-Laplacian on a ball subject to zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. Among main results, in two dimensions, we show the existence of nonradial eigenfunctions which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Vladimir Bobkov , Pavel Drabek

We describe spontaneous symmetry breaking in the powers of two optical modes coupled into a ring resonator, using a pair of coupled Lorentzian equations, featuring tunable self- and cross-phase modulation terms. We investigate a wide…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-29 Lewis Hill , Gian-Luca Oppo , Michael T. M. Woodley , Pascal Del Haye

We consider the Laplacian in $\mathbb{R}^n$ perturbed by a finite number of distant perturbations those are abstract localized operators. We study the asymptotic behaviour of the discrete spectrum as the distances between perturbations tend…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Denis I. Borisov

When considering perturbations in an open (Omega<1) universe, cosmologists retain only sub-curvature modes (defined as eigenfunctions of the Laplacian whose eigenvalue is less than -1 in units of the curvature scale, in contrast with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 David H Lyth , Andrzei Woszczyna

We consider a singularly perturbed problem with mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\R^{n}$ whose boundary has an $(n-2)$-dimensional singularity. Assuming $1<p<\frac{n+2}{n-2}$, we prove that,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Serena Dipierro

This paper concerns the concentration of Dirichlet eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a compact two-dimensional Riemannian manifold with strictly geodesically concave boundary. We link three inequalities which bound the concentration in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Sinan Ariturk