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We give an example of a domain in dimension $N \geq 3$, homeomorphic to a ball and with analytic boundary, for which the second eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian has an eigenfunction with a closed nodal surface. The domain is…

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

It is developed the theory of the boundary behavior of homeomorphic solutions of the Beltrami equations ${\bar{\partial}}f=\mu\,{\partial}f$ of the Sobolev class $W^{1,1}_{\rm loc}$ with respect to prime ends of domains. On this basis,…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Denis Kovtonyuk , Igor' Petkov , Vladimir Ryazanov

We present first results on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator associated with the $1$-Laplace operator in $L^1$. In particular, we show that this operator can be realized as a sub-differential operator in $L^1\times L^{\infty}$ of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Daniel Hauer , José M. Mazón

Bound states of the Hamiltonian describing a quantum particle living on three dimensional straight strip of width $d$ are investigated. We impose the Neumann boundary condition on the two concentric windows of the radii $a$ and $ b$ located…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hatem Najar , Oleg Olendski

We derive a lower bound on the location of global extrema of eigenfunctions for a large class of non-local Schr\"odinger operators in convex domains under Dirichlet exterior conditions, featuring the symbol of the kinetic term, the strength…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Anup Biswas , József Lőrinczi

We determine the asymptotic behaviour of eigenvalues of clamped plates under large compression, by relating this problem to eigenvalues of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions. Using the method of fundamental solutions, we then…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-12 P. R. S. Antunes , D. Buoso , P. Freitas

For the magnetic Laplacian on a bounded planar domain, imposing Neumann boundary conditions produces eigenvalues below the lowest Landau level. If the domain has two boundary components and one imposes a Neumann condition on one component…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Soeren Fournais , Ayman Kachmar

We study the effects of a domain deformation to the nodal set of Laplacian eigenfunctions when the eigenvalue is degenerate. In particular, we study deformations of a rectangle that perturb one side and how they change the nodal sets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Andrew Lyons

In 1990, P\"utter shown that the nodal line of any second eigenfunction of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a planar bounded simply connected domain $\Omega$ intersects the boundary $\partial\Omega$ provided $\Omega$ has the circular symmetry. By…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Vladimir Bobkov

We summarize the properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator in bounded Euclidean domains with Dirichlet, Neumann or Robin boundary condition. We keep the presentation at a level accessible to scientists from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Denis S. Grebenkov , Binh-Thanh Nguyen

We prove the sharp lower bound of the first Neumann eigenvalue for bounded convex planar domain in term of its diameter and width.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Haibin Wang , Guoyi Xu

We study Neumann functions for divergence form, second order elliptic systems with bounded measurable coefficients in a bounded Lipschitz domain or a Lipschitz graph domain. We establish existence, uniqueness, and various estimates for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Jongkeun Choi , Seick Kim

This work considers properties of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map for the conductivity equation under the assumption that the conductivity is identically one close to the boundary of the examined smooth, bounded and simply connected domain. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Nuutti Hyvönen , Petteri Piiroinen , Otto Seiskari

We study the stiff spectral Neumann problem for the Laplace operator in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ which is divided into two subdomains: an annulus $\Omega_1$ and a core $\Omega_0$. The density and the stiffness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-31 V. Chiadò Piat , L. D'Elia , S. A. Nazarov

In this paper, we successfully establish a Courant-type nodal domain theorem for both the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem and the closed eigenvalue problem of the Witten-Laplacian. Moreover, we also characterize the properties of the nodal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ruifeng Chen , Jing Mao , Chuanxi Wu

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

In this note we study the Dirichlet problem associated with a version of prime end boundary of a bounded domain in a complete metric measure space equipped with a doubling measure supporting a Poincare inequality. We show the resolutivity…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Dewey Estep , Nageswari Shanmugalingam

The Laplacian $\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ has the property that it can explicitly be expressed in terms of $\Lambda$, the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map of the unit ball, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Romain Speciel

For the principal eigenvalue with bilateral Dirichlet boundary condition, the so-called basic estimates were originally obtained by capacitary method. The Neumann case (i.e., the ergodic case) is even harder, and was deduced from the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-25 Mu-Fa Chen