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We investigate the geometric properties of Steklov eigenfunctions in smooth manifolds. We derive the refined doubling estimates and Bernstein's inequalities. For the real analytic manifolds, we are able to obtain the sharp upper bound for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Jiuyi Zhu

We prove sharp upper and lower bounds for the nodal length of Steklov eigenfunctions on real-analytic Riemannian surfaces with boundary. The argument involves frequency function methods for harmonic functions in the interior of the surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Iosif Polterovich , David A. Sher , John A. Toth

We investigate upper bounds for the spectral ratios and gaps for the Steklov eigenvalues of balls with revolution-type metrics. We do not impose conditions on the Ricci curvature or on the convexity of the boundary. We obtain optimal upper…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Jade Brisson , Bruno Colbois , Katie Gittins

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

We prove that among all doubly connected domains of $\mathbb{R}^n$ of the form $B_1\backslash \overline{B_2}$, where $B_1$ and $B_2$ are open balls of fixed radii such that $\overline{B_2}\subset B_1$, the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Ilias Ftouhi

We prove that in Riemannian manifolds the $k$-th Steklov eigenvalue on a domain and the square root of the $k$-th Laplacian eigenvalue on its boundary can be mutually controlled in terms of the maximum principal curvature of the boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Changwei Xiong

In this note we establish an expression for the Steklov spectrum of warped products in terms of auxiliary Steklov problems for drift Laplacians with weight induced by the warping factor. As an application, we show that a compact manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Alexandre Girouard , Panagiotis Polymerakis

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

Let N be a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension n+1 whose Riemannian metric g is conformally equivalent to a metric with non-negative Ricci curvature. The normalized Steklov eigenvalues of a bounded domain in N are bounded above in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Bruno Colbois , Ahmad El Soufi , Alexandre Girouard

We consider the dependence of non-zero Steklov eigenvalues on smooth perturbations of the domain boundary. We prove that these eigenvalues are generically simple under such boundary perturbations. This result complements our previous work…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Lihan Wang

Let $(\Sigma^2,ds^2)$ be a compact Riemannian surface, possibly with boundary, and consider Schr\"odinger-type operators of the form $L=\Delta+V-aK$ together with natural Robin and Steklov-type boundary conditions incorporating a boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Railane Antonia , Marcos P. Cavalcante , Vinicius Souza

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 prove the existence of optimal metrics for a wide class of combinations of Laplace eigenvalues on closed orientable surfaces of any genus. The optimal metrics are explicitely related to Laplace minimal eigenmaps, defined as branched…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Romain Petrides

We consider the critical points of Steklov eigenfunctions on a compact, smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary $\partial M$. For generic metrics on $M$ we establish an identity which relates the sum of the indexes of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Luca Battaglia , Angela Pistoia , Luigi Provenzano

In this paper, two interesting eigenvalue comparison theorems for the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue of the Laplacian have been established for manifolds with radial sectional curvature bounded from above. Besides, sharper bounds for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Yan Zhao , Chuanxi Wu , Jing Mao , Feng Du

In this paper, we study the amount of information contained in the Steklov spectrum of some compact manifolds with connected boundary equipped with a warped product metric. Examples of such manifolds can be thought of as deformed balls in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Thierry Daudé , Niky Kamran , François Nicoleau

We obtain asymptotic formulae for the Steklov eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of curvilinear polygons in terms of their side lengths and angles. These formulae are quite precise: the errors tend to zero as the spectral parameter tends to…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Michael Levitin , Leonid Parnovski , Iosif Polterovich , David A. Sher

We obtain supremum of the k-th normalized Steklov eigenvalues of all rotational symmetric conformal metrics on the cylinder with k>1. The case k=1 for all conformal metrics has been completely solved by Fraser and Schoen. We give geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Xu-Qian Fan , Luen-Fai Tam , Chengjie Yu

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

The Steklov spectrum of a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with boundary is the set of eigenvalues counted with multiplicities of its Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. (DN map) This article is devoted to the Steklov spectral inverse…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Benjamin Florentin