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This paper studies the problem of selecting a submatrix of a positive definite matrix in order to achieve a desired bound on the smallest eigenvalue of the submatrix. Maximizing this smallest eigenvalue has applications to selecting input…

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In a previous work, we introduced a discretization scheme for a constrained optimal control problem involving the fractional Laplacian. For such a control problem, we derived optimal a priori error estimates that demand the convexity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola

We consider the problem of geometric optimization of the lowest eigenvalue for the Laplacian on a compact, simply-connected two-dimensional manifold with boundary subject to an attractive Robin boundary condition. We prove that in the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Magda Khalile , Vladimir Lotoreichik

This paper investigates the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for the $p$-Laplacian in Riemannian manifolds. Firstly, we establish a lower bound for this eigenvalue under the condition that the domain includes a specific function which fulfills…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xiaoshang Jin

We establish lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a closed K\"ahler manifold in terms of dimension, diameter, and lower bounds of holomorphic sectional curvature and orthogonal Ricci curvature. On compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang

A wide variety of articles, starting with the famous paper (Gidas, Ni and Nirenberg in Commun. Math. Phys. 68, 209-243 (1979)) is devoted to the uniqueness question for the semilinear elliptic boundary value problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Patrick J. McKenna , Filomena Pacella , Michael Plum , Dagmar Roth

For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiaowei Pang

In this work, the problem of shape optimization, subject to PDE constraints, is reformulated as an $L^p$ best approximation problem under divergence constraints to the shape tensor introduced in Laurain and Sturm: ESAIM Math. Model. Numer.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Gerhard Starke

This paper derives a posteriori error estimates for the mixed numerical approximation of the Laplace eigenvalue problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. In particular, the resulting error estimator constitutes an upper bound…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Fleurianne Bertrand , Daniele Boffi , Rolf Stenberg

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded Lipshcitz domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and we study boundary behaviors of solutions to the Laplacian eigenvalue equation with constant Neumann data. \begin{align} \label{cequation0} \begin{cases} -\Delta u=cu\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Yong Huang , Qinfeng Li , Qiuqi Li , Ruofei Yao

We study some properties of Laplacian eigenvalues with negative Robin boundary conditions. We will show some monotonicity properties on annuli of the first eigenvalue by means of shape optimization techniques.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Leonardo Trani

We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Changshuo Liu , Nicolas Boumal

We prove the existence of an optimal partition for the multiphase shape optimization problem which consists in minimizing the sum of the first Robin Laplacian eigenvalue of $k$ mutually disjoint {\it open} sets which have a $\mathcal H ^…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Dorin Bucur , Ilaria Fragalà , Alessandro Giacomini

In this article we study some optimal design problems related to nonstandard growth eigenvalues ruled by the $g-$Laplacian operator. More precisely, given $\Omega\subset \R^n$ and $\alpha,c>0$ we consider the optimization problem $\inf \{…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Ariel Salort , Belem Schvager , Analía Silva

We deal with eigenvalue problems for the Laplacian with varying mixed boundary conditions, consisting in homogeneous Neumann conditions on a vanishing portion of the boundary and Dirichlet conditions on the complement. By the study of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Veronica Felli , Benedetta Noris , Roberto Ognibene

We present numerical minimizers for the first seven eigenvalues of the magnetic Dirichlet Laplacian with constant magnetic field in a wide range of field strengths. Adapting an approach by Antunes and Freitas, we use gradient descent for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Matthias Baur

We present an iterative algorithm for computing an invariant subspace associated with the algebraically smallest eigenvalues of a large sparse or structured Hermitian matrix A. We are interested in the case in which the dimension of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Eugene Vecharynski , Chao Yang , John E. Pask

Consider the Laplacian in a bounded domain in R^d with general (mixed) homogeneous boundary conditions. We prove that its eigenfunctions are `quasi-orthogonal' on the boundary with respect to a certain norm. Boundary orthogonality is proved…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex H. Barnett

We establish geometric lower bounds for the smallest positive eigenvalue of the Hodge Laplacian in the class of non-convex domains given by Euclidean annular regions with a convex outer boundary and a spherical inner boundary. These bounds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Tirumala Chakradhar , Pierre Nicolle-Guerini

We consider the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1(\Omega,\sigma)$ of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions on a compact Riemannian manifold $\Omega$ with smooth boundary, $\sigma\in\bf R$ being the Robin boundary parameter. When $\sigma>0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Alessandro Savo