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The Steklov problem is an eigenvalue problem with the spectral parameter in the boundary conditions, which has various applications. Its spectrum coincides with that of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator. Over the past years, there has been…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Alexandre Girouard , Iosif Polterovich

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

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

We study the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator on a finite subgraph of the integer lattice Zn. We estimate the first n+1 eigenvalues using the number of vertices of the subgraph. As a corollary, we prove that the first…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Wen Han , Bobo Hua

Let $(\Omega,g)$ be a piecewise-smooth, bounded convex domain in $\R^2$ and consider $L^2$-normalized Neumann eigenfunctions $\phi_{\lambda}$ with eigenvalue $\lambda^2$ and $u_{\lambda}:= \phi_{\lambda} |_{\partial \Omega}$ the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Hans Christianson , John A. Toth

We study the biharmonic Steklov eigenvalue problem on a compact Riemannian manifold $\Omega$ with smooth boundary. We give a computable, sharp lower bound of the first eigenvalue of this problem, which depends only on the dimension, a lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-02 Simon Raulot , Alessandro Savo

We consider the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator (DNO) on nearly-circular and nearly-spherical domains in two and three dimensions, respectively. Treating such domains as perturbations of the ball, we prove the analyticity of the DNO with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Robert Viator , Braxton Osting

We consider the relationship of the geometry of compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary to the first nonzero eigenvalue sigma_1 of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (Steklov eigenvalue). For surfaces Sigma with genus gamma and k boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We consider the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator (DNO) on nearly-hyperspherical domains in dimension greater than 3. Treating such domains as perturbations of the ball, we prove the analytic dependence of the DNO on the shape perturbation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Chee Han Tan , Robert Viator

Let $(\Omega,g)$ be a compact, real-analytic Riemannian manifold with real-analytic boundary $\partial \Omega.$ The harmonic extensions of the boundary Dirchlet-to-Neumann eigenfunctions are called Steklov eigenfunctions. We show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jeffrey Galkowski , John A. Toth

In this paper, we deal with the Steklov-Dirichlet eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian in annular domains. More precisely, we consider $\Omega_r = \Omega_0 \setminus \overline{B}_r$, where $\Omega_0 \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n \geq 2$, is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Rossano Sannipoli

We consider how the geometry and topology of a compact $n$-dimensional Riemannian orbifold with boundary relates to its Steklov spectrum. In two dimensions, motivated by work of A. Girouard, L. Parnovski, I. Polterovich and D. Sher in the…

We prove two upper bounds for the Steklov eigenvalues of a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. The first involves the volume of the manifold and of its boundary, as well as packing and volume growth constants of the boundary and its…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Bruno Colbois , Alexandre Girouard

Let $G$ be a graph of genus $g$ with boundary $\delta\Omega$. For $g=0$, Lin and Zhao [J. Lond. Math. Soc. 112 (2025), Paper No. e70238] proved an upper bound for the first (non-trivial) Steklov eigenvalue of $(G, \delta\Omega )$, and they…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Lixiang Chen , Yongtang Shi , Liwen Zhang

Motivated by the connection between the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet-Laplacian and the torsional rigidity, the aim of this paper is to find a physically coherent and mathematically interesting new concept for boundary torsional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Lorenzo Brasco , María del Mar González , Mikel Ispizua

Let $M^n=[0,R)\times \mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ be an $n$-dimensional ($n\geq 2$) smooth Riemannian manifold equipped with the warped product metric $g=dr^2+h^2(r)g_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}$ and diffeomorphic to a Euclidean ball. Assume that $M$ has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Changwei Xiong

We obtain precise asymptotics for the Steklov eigenvalues on a compact Riemannian surface with boundary. It is shown that the number of connected components of the boundary, as well as their lengths, are invariants of the Steklov spectrum.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Alexandre Girouard , Leonid Parnovski , Iosif Polterovich , David A. Sher

We obtain a complete asymptotic expansion for the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps associated with Schr\"odinger operators on compact Riemannian surfaces with boundary. For the zero potential, we recover the well-known spectral…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Jean Lagacé , Simon St-Amant

We consider the lower bound of nodal sets of Steklov eigenfunctions on smooth Riemannian manifolds with boundary--the eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Let $N_\lambda$ be its nodal set. Assume that zero is a regular value of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Xing Wang , Jiuyi Zhu

We study the optimization of Steklov eigenvalues with respect to a boundary density function $\rho$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$. We investigate the minimization and maximization of $\lambda_k(\rho)$, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Chiu Yen Kao , Seyyed Abbas Mohammadi