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In 1970, Lawson solved the topological realization problem for minimal surfaces in the sphere, showing that any closed orientable surface can be minimally embedded in $\mathbb{S}^3$. The analogous problem for surfaces with boundary was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mikhail Karpukhin , Robert Kusner , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

Let $X$ be a compact connected orientable hyperbolic surface and let $X_n$ be a degree $n$ random cover. We show that, with high probability, the distribution of eigenvalues of the Laplacian on $X_n$ converges to the spectral measure of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Elena Kim , Zhongkai Tao

We study a rather broad class of optimal partition problems with respect to monotone and coercive functional costs that involve the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the partitions. We show a sharp regularity result for the entire set of minimizers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Hugo Tavares , Alessandro Zilio

For the eigenvalue problem of the Steklov differential operator, by following Liu's approach, an algorithm utilizing the conforming finite element method (FEM) is proposed to provide guaranteed lower bounds for the eigenvalues. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Taiga Nakano , Qin Li , Meiling Yue , Xuefeng Liu

We show that the ball does not maximize the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue among all contractible domains of fixed boundary volume in $\mathbb{R}^n$ when $n \geq 3$. This is in contrast to the situation when $n=2$, where a result of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

Consider the surface measure $\mu$ on a sphere in a nonvertical hyperplane on the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$, $n\ge 2$, and the convolution $f*\mu$. Form the associated maximal function $Mf=\sup_{t>0}|f*\mu_t|$ generated by the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Theresa C. Anderson , Laura Cladek , Malabika Pramanik , Andreas Seeger

In this paper we revisit an approach pioneered by Auchmuty to approximate solutions of the Laplace- Robin boundary value problem. We demonstrate the efficacy of this approach on a large class of non-tensorial domains, in contrast with other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Kthim Imeri , Nilima Nigam

The differential-geometric structure of the manifold of smooth shapes is applied to the theory of shape optimization problems. In particular, a Riemannian shape gradient with respect to the first Sobolev metric and the Steklov-Poincar\'{e}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Kathrin Welker

Given $(M,g)$ a smooth compact Riemannian manifold without boundary of dimension $n\geq 3$, we consider the first conformal eigenvalue which is by definition the supremum of the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian among all metrics conformal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Romain Petrides

The second eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian is shown to be maximal for the ball among domains of fixed volume, for negative values of the Robin parameter $\alpha$ in the regime connecting the first nontrivial Neumann and Steklov…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Pedro Freitas , Richard Laugesen

The discrete Laplacian on Euclidean triangulated surfaces is a well-established notion. We introduce discrete Laplacians on spherical and hyperbolic triangulated surfaces. On the one hand, our definitions are close to the Euclidean one in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Ivan Izmestiev , Wai Yeung Lam

The concept of an adapted homology basis for a prime order conformal automorphism of a compact Riemann surface extends to arbitrary finite groups of conformal automorphisms. Here we compute some examples of adapted homology bases for some…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Jane Gilman

In this paper we study eigenvalues of the closed eigenvalue problem of the Witten-Laplacian on an $n$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. Estimates for eigenvalues are given. As applications, we give a sharp upper bound for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-08 Qing-Ming Cheng , Lingzhong Zeng

We consider an optimization problem for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian on a hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$, with $n \ge 2$. If $p \ge 2n-1$, then among hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ which are $O(n) \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Sinan Ariturk

We study the problem of maximizing the $k$-th eigenvalue functional over the class of absolutely continuous measures on a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $m\geq 3$. For dimensions $3 \leq m \leq 6$, we generalize the work of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Denis Vinokurov

In this work, we study the super-Liouville equation on the sphere with positive coefficient functions. We first examine the behavior of the equation under conformal transformations and derive a Pohozaev-type identity, which generalizes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Mingyang Han , Chunqin Zhou

Non-smoothness at optimal points is a common phenomenon in many eigenvalue optimization problems. We consider two recent algorithms to minimize the largest eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix dependent on one parameter, both proven to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Fatih Kangal , Emre Mengi

We introduce a compactification of the space of simple positive divisors on a Riemann surface, as well as a compactification of the universal family of punctured surfaces above this space. These are real manifolds with corners. We then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Rafe Mazzeo , Xuwen Zhu

We consider a class of eigenvector-dependent nonlinear eigenvalue problems (NEPv) without the unitary invariance property. Those NEPv commonly arise as the first-order optimality conditions of a particular type of optimization problems over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Ding Lu , Ren-Cang Li

This paper is devoted to studying impedance eigenvalues (that is, eigenvalues of a particular Dirichlet-to-Neumann map) for the time harmonic linear elastic wave problem, and their potential use as target-signatures for fluid-solid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Michael Levitin , Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas