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In this paper, we consider a generalized polyharmonic eigenvalue problem of the form $A(u)= \lambda h(u)$ in a bounded smooth domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the setting of higher-order Orlicz-Sobolev spaces. Here, $A$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Ignacio Ceresa Dussel , Julián Fernández Bonder , Pablo Ochoa

We study the biharmonic equation $\Delta^2 u =u^{-\alpha}$, $0<\alpha<1$, in a smooth and bounded domain $\Omega\subset\RR^n$, $n\geq 2$, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. Under some suitable assumptions on $\o$ related to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-03 Marius Ghergu

We prove Liouville type theorems for $p$-harmonic functions on exterior domains of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, where $1<p<\infty$ and $d\geq 2$. We show that every positive $p$-harmonic function satisfying zero Dirichlet, Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-07 E. N. Dancer , Daniel Daners , Daniel Hauer

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

We prove that, if $\Omega$ is an open bounded domain with smooth and connected boundary, for every $p \in (1, + \infty)$ the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the normalized $p$-Laplacian is simple in the sense that two positive eigenfunctions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Graziano Crasta , Ilaria Fragalà , Bernd Kawohl

We show that the spectrum of the curl operator on a generic smoothly bounded domain in three-dimensional Euclidean space consists of simple eigenvalues. The main new ingredient in our proof is a formula for the variation of curl eigenvalues…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Josef Greilhuber , Willi Kepplinger

The Signorini problem for the Laplace operator is considered in a general polygonal domain. It is proved that the coincidence set consists of a finite number of boundary parts plus isolated points. The regularity of the solution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Thomas Apel , Serge Nicaise

This note describes the solution of the Helmholtz equation inside a nanotorus with uniform Dirichlet boundary conditions. The eigenfunction symmetry is discussed and the lower-order eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are shown. The similarity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 N. D. Nguyen , R. Evrard , Michael A. Stroscio

In this paper, we compute the second variation of the first Dirichlet eigenvalue on extremal domains in general Riemannian manifolds and establish a criterion for stability. We classify the stable extremal domains in the 2-sphere and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Marcos P. Cavalcante , Ivaldo Nunes

We study eigenvalues of polyharmonic operators on compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary (possibly empty). In particular, we prove a universal inequality for the eigenvalues of the polyharmonic operators on compact domains in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Jürgen Jost , Xianqing Li-Jost , Qiaoling Wang , Changyu Xia

In the present paper, we study properties of the second Dirichlet eigenvalue of the fractional Laplacian of annuli-like domains and the corresponding eigenfunctions. In the first part, we consider an annulus with inner radius $R$ and outer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Sidy M. Djitte , Sven Jarohs

We consider a classical shape optimization problem for the eigenvalues of elliptic operators with homogeneous boundary conditions on domains in the $N$-dimensional Euclidean space. We survey recent results concerning the analytic dependence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Davide Buoso , Pier Domenico Lamberti

We consider an operator $\Delta^2 + A(x)\cdot D+q(x)$ with the Navier boundary conditions on a bounded domain in $R^n$, $n\ge 3$. We show that a first order perturbation $A(x)\cdot D+q$ can be determined uniquely by measuring the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Katsiaryna Krupchyk , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

We announce a well-posedness result for the Laplace equation in weighted Sobolev spaces on polyhedral domains in $\RR^n$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The weight is the distance to the set of singular boundary points. We give a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Constantin Bacuta , Victor Nistor , Ludmil Zikatanov

We find conditions on the potential of the non-self-adjoint Mathieu-Hill operator such that the all eigenvalues of the periodic, antiperiodic, Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems are simple.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-10 O. A. Veliev

We introduce an analogue of Payne's nodal line conjecture, which asserts that the nodal (zero) set of any eigenfunction associated with the second eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded planar domain should reach the boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-03 J. B. Kennedy

We prove that a totally umbilical biharmonic surface in any $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold has constant mean curvature. We use this to show that a totally umbilical surface in Thurston's 3-dimensional geometries is proper biharmonic if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Ye-Lin Ou , Ze-Ping Wang

In this paper, we show that any biharmonic simple rotational surface in the four-dimensional Euclidean space is minimal. The proof is based on reducing the biharmonic equation to a system of ordinary differential equations for the profile…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Shun Maeta

It is shown that eigenvalues of Laplace-Beltrami operators on compact Riemannian manifolds can be determined as limits of eigenvalues of certain finite-dimensional operators in spaces of polyharmonic functions with singularities. In…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Isaac Z. Pesenson

\AA. Pleijel (1956) has proved that in the case of the Laplacian with Dirichlet condition, the equality in the Courant nodal theorem (Courant sharp situation) can only be true for a finite number of eigenvalues when the dimension is $\geq…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Bernard Helffer , Mikael Persson Sundqvist