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The second eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian is shown to be maximal for the ball among domains of fixed volume, for negative values of the Robin parameter $\alpha$ in the regime connecting the first nontrivial Neumann and Steklov…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Pedro Freitas , Richard Laugesen

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

We study the solution to the Robin boundary problem for the Laplacian in a Euclidean domain. We present some families of fractal domains where the infimum of the solution is greater than 0, and some other families of domains were it is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Richard Bass , Krzysztof Burdzy , Zhen-Qing Chen

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

Robin problem for the Laplacian in a bounded planar domain with a smooth boundary and a large parameter in the boundary condition is considered. We prove a two-sided three-term asymptotic estimate for the negative eigenvalues. Furthermore,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Pavel Exner , Alexander Minakov , Leonid Parnovski

We study the Robin eigenvalue problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Riemannian manifolds. Our first result is a comparison theorem for the second Robin eigenvalue on geodesic balls in manifolds whose sectional curvatures are bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang , Haotian Wu

Techniques are presented for calculating directly the scalar functional determinant on the Euclidean d-ball. General formulae are given for Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions. The method involves a large mass asymptotic limit which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 J. S. Dowker

We consider the problem of the recovery of a Robin coefficient on a part $\gamma \subset \partial \Omega$ of the boundary of a bounded domain $\Omega$ from the principal eigenvalue and the boundary values of the normal derivative of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Matteo Santacesaria , Toshiaki Yachimura

We consider the problem of minimising the $k$th eigenvalue, $k \geq 2$, of the ($p$-)Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions with respect to all domains in $\mathbb{R}^N$ of given volume $M$. When $k=2$, we prove that the second eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-07 J. B. Kennedy

For a bounded domain $\Omega$ with a piecewise smooth boundary in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbf{R}^{n}$, we study eigenvalues of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem of the Laplacian. First we give a general inequality for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Qing-Ming Cheng , Xuerong Qi

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

We consider the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on an open, bounded, connected set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $C^2$ boundary, with a Neumann boundary condition or a Robin boundary condition. We obtain upper bounds for those eigenvalues that have a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Katie Gittins , Corentin Léna

The second eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian is shown to be maximal for a spherical cap among simply connected Jordan domains on the 2-sphere, for substantial intervals of positive and negative Robin parameters and areas. Geodesic disks in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Jeffrey J. Langford , Richard S. Laugesen

This paper investigates the link between the Maximum Principle and the sign of the (generalized) principal eigenvalue for elliptic operators in unbounded domains. Our approach covers the cases of Dirichlet, Neumann, and (indefinite) Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Samuel Nordmann

We analyze strict positivity at the boundary for nonnegative solutions of Robin problems in general (non-smooth) domains, e.g. open sets with rectifiable topological boundaries having finite Hausdorff measure. This question was raised by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Dorin Bucur , Alessandro Giacomini , Mickaël Nahon

This paper deals with eigenelements of the Laplacian in bounded domains, under Robin boundary conditions, without any assumption on the sign of the Robin parameter. We quantify the asymptotics of the variation of simple eigenvalues under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Veronica Felli , Prasun Roychowdhury , Giovanni Siclari

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

In this note, we investigate upper bounds of the Neumann eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian of a bounded domain (with smooth boundary) in a given complete (not compact a priori) Riemannian manifold with Ricci bounded below . For this, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-21 Bruno Colbois , Daniel Maerten

We investigate the measure of nodal sets for Robin and Neumann eigenfunctions in the domain and on the boundary of the domain. A polynomial upper bound for the interior nodal sets is obtained for Robin eigenfunctions in the smooth domain.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Jiuyi Zhu

We are concerned in this paper with the real eigenfunctions of Schr\"odinger operators. We prove an asymptotic upper bound for the number of their nodal domains, which implies in particular that the inequality stated in Courant's theorem is…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Philippe Charron , Corentin Léna