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We prove a quantitative uncertainty principle at low energies for the Laplacian on fairly general weighted graphs with a uniform explicit control of the constants in terms of geometric quantities. A major step consists in establishing lower…

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In this work, we propose novel discretizations of the spectral fractional Laplacian on bounded domains based on the integral formulation of the operator via the heat-semigroup formalism. Specifically, we combine suitable quadrature formulas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Nicole Cusimano , Félix del Teso , Luca Gerardo-Giorda , Gianni Pagnini

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 use the direct variational method, the Ekeland variational principle, the mountain pass geometry and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker theorem in order to investigate existence and multiplicity results for boundary value problems connected with the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Marek Galewski , Renata Wieteska

From the recent developing of nonlocal gradients with finite horizon $\delta>0$ based on general kernels, we introduce a new nonlocal $p$-Laplacian and study the eigenvalue problem associated with it. Furthermore, by virtue of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Guillermo García-Sáez

We study a nonlocal diffusion operator in a bounded smooth domain prescribing the flux through the boundary. This problem may be seen as a generalization of the usual Neumann problem for the heat equation. First, we prove existence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Cortazar , M. Elgueta , J. D. Rossi , N. Wolanski

We prove a general Mosco convergence theorem for bounded Euclidean domains satisfying a set of mild geometric hypotheses. For bounded domains, this notion implies norm-resolvent convergence for the Dirichlet Laplacian which in turn ensures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Frank Rösler , Alexei Stepanenko

We show that the boundary behaviour of solutions to nonlocal fractional equations posed in bounded domains strongly differs from the one of solutions to elliptic problems modelled upon the Laplace-Poisson equation with zero boundary data.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Nicola Abatangelo , David Gómez-Castro , Juan Luis Vázquez

A kind of nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations on an unbounded domain containing fractional Laplacian operator is analyzed. To be precise, we prove the convergence of solutions of the equation governed by the fractional Laplacian to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Jiaouhui Xu , Tomás Caraballo , José Valero

In a domain of the Euclidean space, we estimate from below the distance to the boundary of global maximum points of solutions of elliptic and parabolic equations with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary values. As reference cases, we first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Rolando Magnanini , Giorgio Poggesi

We apply the method of inverse iteration to the Laplace eigenvalue problem with Robin and mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions, respectively. For each problem, we prove convergence of the iterates to a non-trivial principal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Benjamin Lyons , Emily Ruttenberg , Nicholas Zitzelberger

In this paper we present an iterative method, inspired by the inverse iteration with shift technique of finite linear algebra, designed to find the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-02 Rodney Josué Biezuner , Grey Ercole , Breno Loureiro Giacchini , Eder Marinho Martins

In this paper, we investigate whether Variational Principles can be associated with the Helmholtz equation subject to impedance (absorbing) boundary conditions. This model has been extensively studied in the literature from both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 G. Makrakis , C. Makridakis , D. Mitsoudis , M. Plexousakis , T. Pryer

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, we investigate existence results for nonlinear nonlocal problems governed by an operator obtained as a superposition of fractional $p$-Laplacians, subject to Neumann boundary conditions. A spectral analysis of the main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yergen Aikyn

We consider the Laplace operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a planar domain and study the effect that performing a scaling in one direction has on the spectrum. We derive the asymptotic expansion for the eigenvalues and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-12-20 Denis Borisov , Pedro Freitas

We add a divergence-free drift with increasing magnitude to the fractional Laplacian on a bounded smooth domain, and discuss the behavior of the principal eigenvalue for the Dirichlet problem. The eigenvalue remains bounded if and only if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Krzysztof Bogdan , Tomasz Komorowski

A variational principle is introduced to provide a new formulation and resolution for several boundary value problems with a variational structure. This principle allows one to deal with problems well beyond the weakly compact structure. As…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Abbas Moameni

We provide a new constructive method for obtaining explicit remainder estimates of eigenvalue counting functions of Neumann Laplacians on domains with fractal boundary. This is done by establishing estimates for first non-trivial…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Sabrina Kombrink , Lucas Schmidt

It is well known that changing boundary conditions for the Laplacian from Dirichlet to Neumann can result in significant changes to the associated eigenmodes, while keeping the eigenvalues close. We present a new and efficient approach for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 Habib Ammari , Oscar Bruno , Kthim Imeri , Nilima Nigam