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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

In this article, we prove an isoperimetric inequality for the harmonic mean of the first $(n-1)$ nonzero Steklov eigenvalues on bounded domains in $n$-dimensional Hyperbolic space. Our approach to prove this result also gives a similar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Sheela Verma

Given a closed Riemannian manifold $M$ and $b\geq2$ closed connected submanifolds $N_j\subset M$ of codimension at least $2$, we prove that the first non-zero eigenvalue of the domain $\Omega_\varepsilon\subset M$ obtained by removing the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Jade Brisson

We prove a sharp upper bound and a lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Wentzell-Laplace operator on compact manifolds with boundary and an isoperimetric inequality for the same eigenvalue in the case where the manifold is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Changyu Xia , Qiaoling Wang

In this paper, we prove a quantitative spectral inequality for the second Robin eigenvalue in non-compact rank-1 symmetric spaces. In particular, this shows that for bounded domains in non-compact rank-1 symmetric spaces, the geodesic ball…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang , Haotian Wu

We prove that among all doubly connected domains of $\R^n$ bounded by two spheres of given radii, $Z(t)$, the trace of the heat kernel with Dirichlet boundary conditions, achieves its minimum when the spheres are concentric (i.e., for the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Ahmad El Soufi , Evans Harrell

We prove that among all doubly connected domains of R^n (n>=2) bounded by two spheres of given radii, the Dirichlet heat content at any fixed time achieves its minimum when the spheres are concentric. This is shown to be a special case of a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Liangpan Li

We consider the Steklov eigenvalue problem on a compact pinched negatively curved manifold $M$ of dimension at least three with totally geodesic boundaries. We obtain a geometric lower bound for the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue in terms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Ara Basmajian , Jade Brisson , Asma Hassannezhad , Antoine Métras

We give lower bounds for the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue on connected graphs. These bounds depend on the extrinsic diameter of the boundary and not on the diameter of the graph. We obtain a lower bound which is sharp when the cardinal…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Hélène Perrin

We study the Steklov problem on hypersurfaces of revolution with two boundary components in Euclidean space. In a recent article, the phenomenon of critical length, at which a Steklov eigenvalue is maximized, was exhibited and multiple…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Antoine Métras , Léonard Tschanz

The Steklov eigenvalue problem was introduced over a century ago, and its discrete form attracted interest recently. Let $D$ and $\delta \Omega$ be the maximum vertex degree and the set of vertices of degree one in a graph $\mathcal{G}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Huiqiu Lin , Da Zhao

We consider the first positive Steklov eigenvalue on planar domains. First, we provide an example of a planar domain for which a first eigenfunction has a closed nodal line. Second, we establish a lower bound for the first positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Azahara DelaTorre , Gabriele Mancini , Angela Pistoia , Luigi Provenzano

We study the maximal Steklov eigenvalues of trees with given number of boundary vertices and total number of vertices. Trees can be regarded as discrete analogue of Hadamard manifolds, namely simply-connected Riemannian manifolds of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Huiqiu Lin , Da Zhao

We study the geometry of the first two eigenvalues of a magnetic Steklov problem on an annulus $\Sigma$ (a compact Riemannian surface with genus zero and two boundary components), the magnetic potential being the harmonic one-form having…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Luigi Provenzano , Alessandro Savo

We study the Steklov eigenvalue problem for the $\infty-$orthotropic Laplace operator defined on convex sets of $\mathbb{R}^N$, with $N\geq2$, considering the limit for $p\to+\infty$ of the Steklov problem for the $p-$orthotropic Laplacian.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Giacomo Ascione , Gloria Paoli

We show that Steklov eigenfunctions in a bounded Lipschitz domain have wavelength dense nodal sets near the boundary, in contrast to what can happen deep inside the domain. As a converse, in a two-dimensional Lipschitz domain $\Omega$, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Stefano Decio

Given a bounded open set $\Omega\subseteq{\mathbb{R}}^n$, we consider the eigenvalue problem of a nonlinear mixed local/nonlocal operator with vanishing conditions in the complement of $\Omega$. We prove that the second eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Stefano Biagi , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Eugenio Vecchi

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sheela Verma

In this paper, we study the first two eigenvalues of the buckling problem on spherical domains. We obtain an estimate on the second eigenvalue in terms of the first eigenvalue, which improves one recent result obtained by Wang-Xia in [7].

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Guangyue Huang , Xingxiao Li , Xuerong Qi

We explore the Steklov eigenvalue problem on convex polygons, focusing mainly on the inverse Steklov problem. Our primary finding reveals that, for almost all convex polygonal domains, there exist at most finitely many non-congruent domains…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Emily B. Dryden , Carolyn Gordon , Javier Moreno , Julie Rowlett , Carlos Villegas-Blas