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Recently, D. Bucur and M. Nahon used boundary homogenisation to show the remarkable flexibility of Steklov eigenvalues of planar domains. In the present paper we extend their result to higher dimensions and to arbitrary manifolds with…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Mikhail Karpukhin , Jean Lagacé

In this paper, a spectral method based on conformal mappings is proposed to solve Steklov eigenvalue problems and their related shape optimization problems in two dimensions. To apply spectral methods, we first reformulate the Steklov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Weaam Alhejaili , Chiu-Yen Kao

In this paper we obtain several results concerning the optimization of higher Steklov eigenvalues both in two and higher dimensional cases. We first show that the normalized (by boundary length) $k$-th Steklov eigenvalue on the disk is not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We develop a computational method for extremal Steklov eigenvalue problems and apply it to study the problem of maximizing the $p$-th Steklov eigenvalue as a function of the domain with a volume constraint. In contrast to the optimal…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Eldar Akhmetgaliyev , Chiu-Yen Kao , Braxton Osting

The second eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian is shown to be maximal for the disk among simply-connected planar domains of fixed area when the Robin parameter is scaled by perimeter in the form $\alpha/L(\Omega)$, and $\alpha$ lies between…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Pedro Freitas , Richard S. Laugesen

In the present paper, we study the variational properties of Steklov transmission eigenvalues, which can be seen as eigenvalues of the sum of two Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators on two different sides of a given curve contained in a surface.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Mikhail Karpukhin , Alain Didier Noutchegueme

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 develop a numerical method for solving shape optimization of functionals involving Steklov eigenvalues and apply it to the problem of maximization of the $k$-th Steklov eigenvalue, under volume constraint. A similar study in the planar…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Pedro R. S. Antunes

We introduce and study Laplacians on a finite metric graph endowed with generalized densities, that is, measures of finite mass. One important motivation is that this setting provides a common framework for several interesting classes of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Kiyan Naderi , Noema Nicolussi

The Steklov eigenvalue problem, first introduced over 125 years ago, has seen a surge of interest in the past few decades. This article is a tour of some of the recent developments linking the Steklov eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Bruno Colbois , Alexandre Girouard , Carolyn Gordon , David Sher

This paper studies the optimization of the lowest eigenvalue of the magnetic Steklov problem on planar domains. In the bounded domain setting and for magnetic fields of moderate strengths, we prove that among all simply-connected smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Ayman Kachmar , Vladimir Lotoreichik

In this paper we use the relationship between conformal metrics on the sphere and horospherically convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space for giving sufficient conditions on a conformal metric to be radial under some constrain on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-17 Jose M. Espinar

We consider the relationship of the geometry of compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary to the first nonzero eigenvalue sigma_1 of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (Steklov eigenvalue). For surfaces Sigma with genus gamma and k boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We investigate isoperimetric upper bounds for sums of consecutive Steklov eigenvalues of planar domains. The normalization involves the perimeter and scale-invariant geometric factors which measure deviation of the domain from roundness. We…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-27 A. Girouard , R. S. Laugesen , B. A. Siudeja

This paper deals with eigenvalue optimization problems for a family of natural Schr\"odinger operators arising in some geometrical or physical contexts. These operators, whose potentials are quadratic in curvature, are considered on closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Ahmad El Soufi

On any compact manifold of dimension $n\geq3$ with boundary, we prescibe any finite part of the Steklov spectrum whithin a given conformal class. In particular, we prescribe the multiplicity of the first eigenvalues. On a compact surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Pierre Jammes

In this note we present upper bounds for the variational eigenvalues of the $p$-Laplacian on smooth domains of complete $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds and Neumann boundary conditions, and on compact (boundaryless) Riemannian…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Bruno Colbois , Luigi Provenzano

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

Given a surface $M$ and a fixed conformal class $c$ one defines $\Lambda_k(M,c)$ to be the supremum of the $k$-th nontrivial Laplacian eigenvalue over all metrics $g\in c$ of unit volume. It has been observed by Nadirashvili that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Mikhail Karpukhin , Daniel L. Stern

In this paper we study the first Steklov-Laplacian eigenvalue with an internal fixed spherichal obstacle. We prove that the spherical shell locally maximizes the first eigenvalue among nearly spherical sets when both the internal ball and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Gloria Paoli , Gianpaolo Piscitelli , Rossano Sannipoli