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We consider the Robin Laplacian in the exterior of a bounded simply-connected Lipschitz domain in the hyperbolic plane. We show that the essential spectrum of this operator is $[\frac14,\infty)$ and that, under convexity assumption on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Antonio Celentano , David Krejcirik , Vladimir Lotoreichik

The celebrated conjecture by Payne, P\'{o}lya and Weinberger (1956) states that for the fixed membrane problem, the ratio of the first two eigenvalues, $\lambda_2/\lambda_1$, is maximized by a disk. A more general dimensional version of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Guowei Dai , Yingxin Sun

We consider the problem of geometric optimization of the lowest eigenvalue for the Laplacian on a compact, simply-connected two-dimensional manifold with boundary subject to an attractive Robin boundary condition. We prove that in the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Magda Khalile , Vladimir Lotoreichik

Among all $C^{\infty}$ bounded domains with equal volume, we show that the second eigenvalue of the Robin plate is uniquely maximized by an open ball, so long as the Robin parameter lies within a particular range of negative values. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-18 L. Mercredi Chasman , Jeffrey J. Langford

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^2$ be a bounded planar domain, with piecewise smooth boundary $\partial \Omega$. For $\sigma>0$, we consider the Robin boundary value problem \[ -\Delta f =\lambda f, \qquad \frac{\partial f}{\partial n} +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Zeev Rudnick , Igor Wigman , Nadav Yesha

The sum of the first $n \geq 1$ eigenvalues of the Laplacian is shown to be maximal among triangles for the equilateral triangle, maximal among parallelograms for the square, and maximal among ellipses for the disk, provided the ratio…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-28 R. S. Laugesen , B. A. Siudeja

We study the Robin eigenvalue problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Riemannian manifolds. Our first result is a comparison theorem for the second Robin eigenvalue on geodesic balls in manifolds whose sectional curvatures are bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Xiaolong Li , Kui Wang , Haotian Wu

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\ge 2$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain with outer unit normal $\nu$. For $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$ let $R_\Omega^\alpha$ be the Laplacian in $\Omega$ with the Robin boundary condition $\partial_\nu u+\alpha…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Charlotte Dietze , Konstantin Pankrashkin

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

We consider the problem of geometric optimisation of the lowest eigenvalue of the Laplacian in the exterior of a compact planar set, subject to attractive Robin boundary conditions. Under either a constraint of fixed perimeter or area, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-26 David Krejcirik , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We consider the problem of geometric optimisation of the lowest eigenvalue of the Laplacian in the exterior of a compact set in any dimension, subject to attractive Robin boundary conditions. As an improvement upon our previous work…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-26 David Krejcirik , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We consider the problem of minimising the $k$th eigenvalue, $k \geq 2$, of the ($p$-)Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions with respect to all domains in $\mathbb{R}^N$ of given volume $M$. When $k=2$, we prove that the second eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-07 J. B. Kennedy

Previous works provided several counterexamples to monotonicity of the lowest eigenvalue for the magnetic Laplacian in the two-dimensional case. However, the three-dimensional case is less studied. We use the results obtained by Helffer,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Germán Miranda

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 prove weighted isoperimetric inequalities for smooth, bounded, and simply connected domains. More precisely, we show that the moment of inertia of inner parallel curves for domains with fixed perimeter attains its maximum for a disk.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Charlotte Dietze , Ayman Kachmar , Vladimir Lotoreichik

The spectral gap of the Neumann and Dirichlet Laplacians are each known to have a sharp positive lower bound among convex domains of a given diameter. Between these cases, for each positive value of the Robin parameter an analogous sharp…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Derek Kielty

We study the behaviour, as $p \to +\infty$, of the second eigenvalues of the $p$-Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions and the limit of the associated eigenfunctions. We prove that, up to some regularity of the set, the limit of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Vincenzo Amato , Alba Lia Masiello , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian with homogeneous Robin boundary conditions, when the (positive) Robin parameter is diverging. In this framework, since the convergence of the Robin eigenvalues to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Roberto Ognibene

In this paper we prove that the ball maximizes the first eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian operator with negative boundary parameter, among all convex sets of \mathbb{R}^n with prescribed perimeter. The key of the proof is a dearrangement…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-16 D. Bucur , V. Ferone , C. Nitsch , C. Trombetti

We introduce Robin boundary conditions for biharmonic operators, which are a model for elastically supported plates and are closely related to the study of spaces of traces of Sobolev functions. We study the dependence of the operator, its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Davide Buoso , James B. Kennedy