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In this paper in the cylindrical domain we consider a fractional elliptic operator with Dirichlet conditions. We prove, that the first eigenvalue of the fractional elliptic operator is minimised in a circular cylinder among all cylindrical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Aidyn Kassymov , Michael Ruzhansky , Berikbol T. Torebek

Faber-Krahn functions provide lower bounds on the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian and are useful because they imply heat kernel upper bounds. In this paper, we are interested in Faber-Krahn functions and heat kernel estimates…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Emily Dautenhahn , Laurent Saloff-Coste

When revisiting the Faber-Krahn inequality for the principal $p$-Laplacian eigenvalue of a bounded open set in $\mathbb R^n$ with smooth boundary, we simply rename it as the $p$-Faber-Krahn inequality and interestingly find that this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-20 Jie Xiao

For a given bounded Lipschitz set $\Omega$, we consider a Steklov--type eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian operator whose solutions provide extremal functions for the compact embedding $H^1(\Omega)\hookrightarrow L^2(\partial \Omega)$. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Vincenzo Ferone , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

The objective of this paper is two-fold. First, we establish new sharp quantitative estimates for Faber-Krahn inequalities on simply connected space forms. We prove that the gap between the first eigenvalue of a given set $\Omega$ and that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Mark Allen , Dennis Kriventsov , Robin Neumayer

We investigate a phase-field version of the Faber--Krahn theorem based on a phase-field optimization problem introduced in Garcke et al. [ESAIM Control Optim. Calc. Var. 29 (2023), Paper No. 10] formulated for the principal eigenvalue of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Paul Hüttl , Patrik Knopf , Tim Laux

In this paper, we mainly study eigenvalue problems of p-Laplacian on domains with an interior hole. Firstly we prove Faber-Krahn-type inequalities, and Cheng-type eigenvalue comparison theorems on manifolds. Secondly, we prove a comparison…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Kui Wang

Inspired by the Li--Yau eigenvalue-diameter estimates, we investigate lower bounds for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue in terms of the diameter (or inscribed radius) of a graph. Let $G = (V, E)$ be a graph with boundary $B$. Assume that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Huiqiu Lin , Lianping Liu , Zhe You , Da Zhao

A Faber-Krahn type argument gives a sharp lower estimate for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue for subdomains of wedge domains in spheres, generalizing the inequality in the plane, found by Payne and Weinberger. An application is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Jesse Ratzkin , Andrejs Treibergs

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ with $d\geq 2$ be a bounded domain of class $\mathcal{C}^{1,\beta }$ for some $\beta \in (0,1)$. For $p\in (1, \infty )$ and $s\in (0,1)$, let $\Lambda ^s_{p}(\Omega )$ be the first eigenvalue of the mixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 K Ashok Kumar , Nirjan Biswas

The main result of the paper shows that the regular $n$-gon is a local minimizer for the first Dirichlet-Laplace eigenvalue among $n$-gons having fixed area for $n \in \{5,6\}$. The eigenvalue is seen as a function of the coordinates of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Beniamin Bogosel , Dorin Bucur

In this paper we study the main properties of the first eigenvalue and its eigenfunctions of a class of highly nonlinear elliptic operators in a bounded Lipschitz domain, assuming a Robin boundary condition. Moreover, we prove a Faber-Krahn…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-15 Francesco Della Pietra , Nunzia Gavitone

We present a fractional counterpart of a generalized Kohler-Jobin inequality, showing that, among all bounded, open sets $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ with Lipschitz boundary, having the same fractional torsional rigidity, the first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Barbara Brandolini , Ida de Bonis , Vincenzo Ferone , Gianpaolo Piscitelli , Bruno Volzone

For a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and a small number $\frak{T} > 0$, let \[ \mathcal{E}_0(\Omega) = \lambda_1(\Omega) + {\frak{T}} {\text{tor}}(\Omega) = \inf_{u, w \in H^1_0(\Omega)\setminus \{0\}} \frac{\int |\nabla u|^2}{\int…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Mark Allen , Dennis Kriventsov , Robin Neumayer

We obtain new Faber-Krahn-type inequalities for certain perturbations of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded domain. First, we establish a two- and three-dimensional Faber-Krahn inequality for the Schr\"odinger operator with point…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Vladimir Lotoreichik , Alessandro Michelangeli

In this paper, motivated by our previous work \cite{HY}, we prove that the minimum of the first Dirichlet eigenvalues for the normalized combinatorial $p$-Laplacian on connected finite graphs with boundary consisting of $n$ edges is only…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Wankai He , Chengjie Yu

We study the maximal Steklov eigenvalues of trees with given number of boundary vertices and total number of vertices. Trees can be regarded as discrete analogue of Hadamard manifolds, namely simply-connected Riemannian manifolds of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Huiqiu Lin , Da Zhao

We consider the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Laplacian in a bounded and simply connected planar domain, with uniform magnetic field and Neumann boundary conditions. We investigate the reverse Faber-Krahn inequality conjectured by S.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Bruno Colbois , Corentin Léna , Luigi Provenzano , Alessandro Savo

For a geodesic ball with non-negative Ricci curvature and mean convex boundary, it is known that the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of this geodesic ball has a sharp lower bound in term of its radius. We show a quantitative explicit inequality,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Guoyi Xu

We prove a Faber-Krahn inequality for the Laplacian with drift under Robin boundary condition, provided that the $\beta$ parameter in the Robin condition is large enough. The proof relies on a compactness argument, on the convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 François Hamel , Emmanuel Russ