Related papers: On the shape of the first fractional eigenfunction

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension >2. We show that there is a metric h conformal to g and of volume 1 such that the first positive eigenvalue the conformal Laplacian with repect to h is arbitrarily large. A similar…

The fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ is the prototypical non-local elliptic operator. While analytical theory has been advanced and understood for some time, there remain many open problems in the numerical analysis of the…

We introduce a definition of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{s(\cdot)}$ with spatially variable order $s:\Omega\to [0,1]$ and study the solvability of the associated Poisson problem on a bounded domain $\Omega$. The initial motivation…

In this paper, we propose accurate and efficient finite difference methods to discretize the two- and three-dimensional fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}$ ($0 < \alpha < 2$) in hypersingular integral form. The proposed…

In this paper, we prove the nonexistence of $L^2$ harmonic 1-forms on a complete super stable minimal submanifold $M$ in hyperbolic space under the assumption that the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1 (M)$ for the Laplace operator on $M$ is…

The integral fractional Laplacian of order $s \in (0,1)$ is a nonlocal operator. It is known that solutions to the Dirichlet problem involving such an operator exhibit an algebraic boundary singularity regardless of the domain regularity.…

Using symmetrization techniques, we show that, for every $N \geq 2$, any second eigenfunction of the fractional Laplacian in the $N$-dimensional unit ball with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions is nonradial, and hence its nodal set is an…

We prove the existence of extremal domains for the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator in some compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension $n \geq 2$, with volume close to the volume of the manifold. If the first (positive)…

We study existence, regularity, and qualitative properties of solutions to linear problems involving higher-order fractional Laplacians $(-\Delta)^s$ for any $s>1$. Using the nonlocal properties of these operators, we provide an explicit…

We consider the problem of prescribing the nodal set of the first nontrivial eigenfunction of the Laplacian in a conformal class. Our main result is that, given a separating closed hypersurface $\Sigma$ in a compact Riemannian manifold…

We present a fractional counterpart of a generalized Kohler-Jobin inequality, showing that, among all bounded, open sets $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ with Lipschitz boundary, having the same fractional torsional rigidity, the first…

Given a closed symplectic manifold (M,\omega) of dimension greater than 2, we consider all Riemannian metrics on M, which are compatible with the symplectic structure \omega. For each such metric, we look at the first eigenvalue \lambda_1…

In this paper we analyze an eigenvalue problem related to the nonlocal $p-$laplace operator plus a potential. After reviewing some elementary properties of the first eigenvalue of these operators (existence, positivity of associated…

This paper is devoted to interior, i.e. away from the boundary, estimates for eigenfunctions of the fractional Laplacian in an Euclidean domain of $\mathbb R^d$.

We consider the following class of fractional parametric problems \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta_{Dir})^{s} u= f(x, u)+t\varphi_{1}+h &\mbox{ in } \Omega\\ u=0 &\mbox{ on } \partial \Omega, \end{array} \right.…

Let $\Sigma$ be a closed embedded minimal hypersurface in the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{m+1}$ and let $\Lambda=\max\limits_{\Sigma}|A|$ be the norm of its second fundamental form. In this work we prove that the first eigenvalue of the…

Let $0<\alpha<2$, $p\geq 1$, $m\in\mathbb{N}_+$. Consider $u$ to be the positive solution of the PDE \begin{equation}\label{abstract PDE} (-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}+m} u(x)=u^p(x) \quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^n. \end{equation} Cao, Dai and…

We study the first Dirichlet eigenfunction of the Laplacian in a $n$-dimensional convex domain. For domains of a fixed inner radius, estimates of Chiti imply that the ratio of the $L^2$-norm and $L^{\infty}$-norm of the eigenfunction is…

We present a notion of weak solution for the Dirichlet problem driven by the fractional Laplacian, following the Stampacchia theory. Then, we study semilinear problems on bounded domains $\Omega$ with two different boundary conditions at…

The space forms, the complex hyperbolic spaces and the quaternionic hyperbolic spaces are characterized as the harmonic manifolds with specific radial eigenfunctions of the Laplacian.