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We investigate how the lowest eigenvalue of a magnetic Laplacian depends on the geometry of a planar domain with a disk shaped hole, where the magnetic field is generated by a singular flux. Under Dirichlet boundary conditions on the inner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Mrityunjoy Ghosh , Ayman Kachmar

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

We construct a counterexample to the ``hot spots'' conjecture; there exists a bounded connected planar domain (with two holes) such that the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian in that domain with Neumann boundary conditions is simple and…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Krzysztof Burdzy , Wendelin Werner

In this paper we study optimization problems for Neumann eigenvalues $\mu_k$ among convex domains with a constraint on the diameter or the perimeter. We work mainly in the plane, though some results are stated in higher dimension. We study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Beniamin Bogosel , Antoine Henrot , Marco Michetti

For given $\Delta>0$ and $0<\lambda<3/\sqrt{2}$, we show that the maximum multiplicity that $\lambda$ can appear as the second largest eigenvalue of a connected graph with maximum degree at most $\Delta$ is $O_{\Delta,\lambda}(1)$. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Chuanyuan Ge , Shiping Liu

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

First non-zero Neumann eigenvalues of a rectangle and a parallelogram with the same base and area are compared in case when the height of the parallelogram is greater than the base. This result is applied to compare first non-zero Neumann…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Arseny Raiko

Comparing Neumann and Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a bounded domain $\Omega\subseteq\Rbb^n$ is a topic that goes back at least to the work of P\'olya \cite{polya}. We study the effect of the isoperimetric ratio of $\Omega$ on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Lawford Hatcher

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

We consider the magnetic Laplacian with the homogeneous magnetic field in two and three dimensions. We prove that the $(k+1)$-th magnetic Neumann eigenvalue of a bounded convex planar domain is not larger than its $k$-th magnetic Dirichlet…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Vladimir Lotoreichik

We investigate the relationship between the Neumann and Steklov principal eigenvalues emerging from the study of collapsing convex domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Such a relationship allows us to give a partial proof of a conjecture concerning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Paolo Acampora , Vincenzo Amato , Emanuele Cristoforoni

This paper aims to show that, in the limit of strong magnetic fields, the optimal domains for eigenvalues of magnetic Laplacians tend to exhibit symmetry. We establish several asymptotic bounds on magnetic eigenvalues to support this…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Léo Morin

In this paper we consider the second eigenfunction of the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions in convex domains. If the domain has \emph{large eccentricity} then the eigenfunction has \emph{exactly} two nondegenerate critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Fabio De Regibus , Massimo Grossi

We give an overview of results on shape optimization for low eigenvalues of the Laplacian on bounded planar domains with Neumann and Steklov boundary conditions. These results share a common feature: they are proved using methods of complex…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Alexandre Girouard , Iosif Polterovich

We study the efficiency of the first Dirichlet eigenfunction $u$ on bounded convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, defined as the ratio between the mean value of $u$ on $\Omega$ and its maximum value. By exploiting improved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Francesco Della Pietra

We establish two new universal inequalities for Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a planar convex domain.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Kei Funano

We show the existence of planar domains with one hole for which the first non-trivial Neumann eigenfunction has a closed nodal line fully contained inside the domain. This is optimal, as it is known since Pleijel's 1956 result that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Pedro Freitas , Roméo Leylekian

The second-largest eigenvalue and second-smallest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph are measures of its connectivity. These eigenvalues can be used to analyze the robustness, resilience, and synchronizability of networks, and are related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Aida Abiad , Boris Brimkov , Xavier Martinez-Rivera , O Suil , Jingmei Zhang

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

Given a convex domain and its convex sub-domain we prove a variant of domain monotonicity for the Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian. As an application of our method we also obtain an upper bound for Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Kei Funano