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It has recently been conjectured by Bogosel, Henrot, and Michetti that the second positive eigenvalue of the Neumann Laplacian is maximized, among all planar convex domains of fixed perimeter, by the rectangle with one edge length equal to…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Jonathan Rohleder

We prove that the geodesic disks are the unique maximisers of the first non-trivial Neumann eigenvalue among all simply connected domains of the sphere $\mathbb S^2$ with fixed area.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Luigi Provenzano , Alessandro Savo

We prove sharp bounds on eigenvalues of the Laplacian that complement the Faber--Krahn and Luttinger inequalities. In particular, we prove that the ball maximizes the first eigenvalue and minimizes the spectral zeta function and heat trace.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Richard Laugesen , Bartlomiej Siudeja

In Euclidean and Hyperbolic space, and the hemisphere in $S^n$, geodesic balls maximize the gap $\lambda_2 - \lambda_1$ of Dirichlet eigenvalues, amoung domains with fixed $\lambda_1$. We prove an upper bound on $\lambda_2 - \lambda_1$ for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Nick Edelen

For the Laplacian in spherical and hyperbolic spaces, Robin eigenvalues in two dimensions and Dirichlet eigenvalues in higher dimensions are shown to satisfy scaling inequalities analogous to the standard scale invariance of the Euclidean…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Scott Harman

The third eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian on a simply-connected planar domain of given area is bounded above by the third eigenvalue of a disjoint union of two disks, provided the Robin parameter lies in a certain range and is scaled in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Alexandre Girouard , Richard S. Laugesen

We prove an improved Pleijel nodal domain theorem for the Robin eigenvalue problem. In particular we remove the restriction, imposed in previous work, that the Robin parameter be non-negative. We also improve the upper bound in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Asma Hassannezhad , David Sher

We prove that among all doubly connected domains of $\mathbb{R}^n$ of the form $B_1\backslash \overline{B_2}$, where $B_1$ and $B_2$ are open balls of fixed radii such that $\overline{B_2}\subset B_1$, the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Ilias Ftouhi

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

In this article, we give computable lower bounds for the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue $\sigma_1$ of a compact connected 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ with several cylindrical boundary components. These estimates show how the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Hélène Perrin

In this paper we study the main properties of the first eigenvalue and its eigenfunctions of a class of highly nonlinear elliptic operators in a bounded Lipschitz domain, assuming a Robin boundary condition. Moreover, we prove a Faber-Krahn…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-15 Francesco Della Pietra , Nunzia Gavitone

We study the statistics and the arithmetic properties of the Robin spectrum of a rectangle. A number of results are obtained for the multiplicities in the spectrum, depending on the Diophantine nature of the aspect ratio. In particular, it…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Zeév Rudnick , Igor Wigman

In this paper, we study the optimization of the first Laplacian eigenvalue on axisymmetric doubly connected domains under positive Robin boundary conditions. Under additional geometric constraints, we prove that spherical shells maximize…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Vincenzo Amato , Nunzia Gavitone , Francesca de Giovanni

We consider the Laplacian on a metric graph, equipped with Robin ($\delta$-type) vertex condition at some of the graph vertices and Neumann-Kirchhoff condition at all others. The corresponding eigenvalues are called Robin eigenvalues,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ram Band , Holger Schanz , Gilad Sofer

We consider the relationship of the geometry of compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary to the first nonzero eigenvalue sigma_1 of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (Steklov eigenvalue). For surfaces Sigma with genus gamma and k boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

} In this article, we put forward a Neumann eigenvalue problem for the bi-harmonic operator $\Delta^2$ on a bounded smooth domain $\Om$ in the Euclidean $n$-space ${\bf R}^n$ ($n\ge2$) and then prove that the corresponding first non-zero…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-28 Q. Ding , G. Feng , Y. Zhang

In this paper we prove that the ball maximizes the first eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian operator with negative boundary parameter, among all convex sets of \mathbb{R}^n with prescribed perimeter. The key of the proof is a dearrangement…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-16 D. Bucur , V. Ferone , C. Nitsch , C. Trombetti

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded, smooth domain of $\mathbb R^N$, $N\ge 2$. In this paper, we prove some inequalities involving the first Robin eigenvalue of the $p$-laplacian operator. In particular, we prove an upper bound for the first Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Rosa Barbato , Francesco Della Pietra

On a convex bounded Euclidean domain, the ground state for the Laplacian with Neumann boundary conditions is a constant, while the Dirichlet ground state is log-concave. The Robin eigenvalue problem can be considered as interpolating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Ben Andrews , Julie Clutterbuck , Daniel Hauer

In this article, we study Steklov eigenvalues and mixed Steklov Neumann eigenvalues on a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n \geq 2$, having a spherical hole. We focus on two main results related to Steklov eigenvalues. First, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Sagar Basak , Sheela Verma