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Given a bounded Euclidean domain $\Omega$, we consider the sequence of optimisers of the $k^{\rm th}$ Laplacian eigenvalue within the family consisting of all possible disjoint unions of scaled copies of $\Omega$ with fixed total volume. We…

We investigate symmetry and quantitative approximate symmetry for an overdetermined problem related to the fractional torsion equation in a regular open, bounded set $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$. Specifically, we show that if…

We consider the solution of $-\Delta u = 1$ on convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions $u =0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Our main concern is the behavior of $\|\nabla u\|_{L^{\infty}}$, also known as…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^2$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$, and let $\omega_h$ be the set of points in $\Omega$ whose distance from the boundary is smaller than $h$. We prove that the eigenvalues of the…

We consider a weighted eigenvalue problem for the Dirichlet laplacian in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$, where the bang-bang weight equals a positive constant $\overline{m}$ on a ball $B\subset\Omega$ and a negative…

We prove a lower bound for the Cheeger constant of a cylinder $\Omega\times (0,L)$, where $\Omega$ is an open and bounded set. As a consequence, we obtain existence of minimizers for the shape functional defined as the ratio between the…

We consider minimizers of \[ F(\lambda_1(\Omega),\ldots,\lambda_N(\Omega)) + |\Omega|, \] where $F$ is a function strictly increasing in each parameter, and $\lambda_k(\Omega)$ is the $k$-th Dirichlet eigenvalue of $\Omega$. Our main result…

For every given $\beta<0$, we study the problem of maximizing the first Robin eigenvalue of the Laplacian $\lambda_\beta(\Omega)$ among convex (not necessarily smooth) sets $\Omega\subset\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with fixed perimeter. In particular,…

Let $\Omega$ be a piecewise-smooth, bounded convex domain in $\R^2$ and consider $L^2$-normalized Neumann eigenfunctions $\phi_{\lambda}$ with eigenvalue $\lambda^2$. Our main result is a small-scale {\em non-concentration} estimate: We…

We prove that the real-valued electric potential $q \in L^{\max(2,3 n / 5)}(\Omega)$ of the Dirichlet Laplacian $-\Delta +q$ acting in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n \ge 3$, is uniquely determined by the asymptotics of…

We consider minimizers $u_\varepsilon$ of the Ginzburg-Landau energy with quadratic divergence penalization on a simply-connected two-dimensional domain $\Omega$. On the boundary, strong tangential anchoring is imposed. We prove that…

There exists a family $\{B_{\alpha}\}_{\alpha<\omega_1}$ of sets of countable ordinals such that o $\max B_{\alpha}=\alpha$, o if $\alpha\in B_{\beta}$ then $B_{\alpha}\subseteq B_{\beta}$, o if $\lambda\leq \alpha$ and $\lambda$ is a limit…

This paper estimates the location and the width of the nodal set of the first Neumann eigenfunctions on a smooth convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$, whose length is normalized to be 1 and whose cross-section is contained in a ball…

A plasmon of a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ is a non-trivial bounded harmonic function on $\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\partial\Omega$ which is continuous at $\partial\Omega$ and whose exterior and interior normal derivatives at…

We address extremum problems for spectral quantities associated with operators of the form $\Delta^2-\tau\Delta$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions, for non-negative values of $\tau$. The focus is on two shape optimisation problems:…

Let $\mathbb{M}$ denote a complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature $K_{\mathbb{M}} \leq k$ and Ricci curvature $\text{Ric}_{\mathbb{M}} \geq (n-1)K$, where $k,K \in \mathbb{R}$. Then for a bounded domain…

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…

We study extrema of the first and the second mixed eigenvalues of the Laplacian on the disk among some families of Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. We show that the minimizer of the second eigenvalue among all mixed boundary…

We prove existence of partitions of an open set $\Omega$ with a given number of phases, which minimize the sum of the fractional perimeters of all the phases, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. In two dimensions we show that, if the…

We consider the well-known shape optimization problem with spectral cost: minimizing the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian among all subdomains $\Omega$ having prescribed volume and contained in a fixed box $D$; equivalently, we…