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We study the eigenvalues of the Laplacian with a strong attractive Robin boundary condition in curvilinear polygons. It was known from previous works that the asymptotics of several first eigenvalues is essentially determined by the corner…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Magda Khalile , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Konstantin Pankrashkin

We are interested in the number of nodal domains of eigenfunctions of sub-Laplacians on sub-Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we investigate the validity of Pleijel's theorem, which states that, as soon as the dimension is strictly larger…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Rupert L. Frank , Bernard Helffer

Let $(M, g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold, where g is $C^1$-smooth metric. Consider the sequence of eigenfunctions $u_k$ of the Laplace operator on M. Let $B$ be a ball on $M$. We prove a sharp estimate of the number of nodal domains of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-06 S. Chanillo , A. Logunov , E. Malinnikova , D. Mangoubi

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

In this paper, we prove an upper bound for the first Robin eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian with a positive boundary parameter and a quantitative version of the reverse Faber-Krahn type inequality for the first Robin eigenvalue of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Vincenzo Amato , Andrea Gentile , Alba Lia Masiello

We study the spectrum of the Laplacian on the hemisphere with Robin boundary conditions. It is found that the eigenvalues fall into small clusters around the Neumann spectrum, and satisfy a Szeg\H{o} type limit theorem. Sharp upper and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Zeév Rudnick , Igor Wigman

The paper addresses the the number of nodal domains for eigenfunctions of Schr\"{o}dinger operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions in bounded domains. In dimension one, the $n$th eigenfunction has $n$ nodal domains. The Courant Theorem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Gregory Berkolaiko , Peter Kuchment , Uzy Smilansky

We study the spectrum of the Robin Laplacian with a complex Robin parameter $\alpha$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$. We start by establishing a number of properties of the corresponding operator, such as generation properties, local…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Sabine Bögli , James B. Kennedy , Robin Lang

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 study a nonlinear boundary value problem driven by the $p$-Laplacian plus an indefinite potential with Robin boundary condition. The reaction term is a Carath\'eodory function which is asymptotically resonant at $\pm\infty$ with respect…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou , Vicenţiu D. Rădulescu , Dušan D. Repovš

Let $M$ be a compact connected smooth manifold with smooth boundary, and let $\rho$ be a positive continuous function on the boundary which is served as the Robin parameter. In this paper, we study three problems concerning the prescription…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Xiang He , Zuoqin Wang

Urschel introduced a notion of nodal partitioning to prove an upper bound on the number of nodal decomposition of discrete Laplacian eigenvectors. The result is an analogue to the well-known Courant's nodal domain theorem on continuous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Hiranya Kishore Dey , Soumyajit Saha

In this paper, we study the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on doubly connected domains when Robin and Dirichlet conditions are imposed on the outer and the inner part of the boundary, respectively. We provide that the spherical shell…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Nunzia Gavitone , Gianpaolo Piscitelli

We find the Courant-sharp Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on some 2-rep-tile domains. In $\R^{2}$ the domains we consider are the isosceles right triangle and the rectangle with edge ratio $\sqrt{2}$ (also known as the A4 paper). In…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Ram Band , Michael Bersudsky , David Fajman

For a second order formally symmetric elliptic differential expression we show that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map or Robin-to-Dirichlet map for suitably many energies on an arbitrarily small open subset of the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Jussi Behrndt , Jonathan Rohleder

In this paper, we prove two unique continuation results for second order elliptic equations with Robin boundary conditions on $C^{1,1}$ domains. The first one is a sharp vanishing order estimate of Robin problems with Lipschitz coefficients…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Zongyuan Li , Weinan Wang

In this paper, we investigate a shape optimization problem for the second Robin eigenvalue of the weighted Laplacian on bounded Lipschitz domains symmetric about the origin. Our main theorem states that the ball centered at the origin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yi Gao , Kui Wang , Anqiang Zhu

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

In 1956 $\AA$. Pleijel gave his celebrated theorem showing that the inequality in Courant's theorem on the number of nodal domains is strict for large eigenvalues of the Laplacian. This was a consequence of a stronger result giving an…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Philippe Charron , Bernard Helffer , Thomas Hoffmann-Ostenhof

The third eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian on a simply-connected planar domain of given area is bounded above by the third eigenvalue of a disjoint union of two disks, provided the Robin parameter lies in a certain range and is scaled in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Alexandre Girouard , Richard S. Laugesen