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Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold. Let $P_{x,y}(M)$ be the space of continuous paths on $M$ with fixed starting point $x$ and ending point $y$. Assume that $x$ and $y$ is close enough such that the minimal geodesic $c_{xy}$ between…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Shigeki Aida

We prove that among all doubly connected domains of $\mathbb{R}^n$ bounded by two spheres of given radii, the second eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian achieves its maximum when the spheres are concentric (spherical shell). The…

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We consider random Schr\"odinger operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions outside lattice approximations of a smooth Euclidean domain and study the behavior of its lowest-lying eigenvalues in the limit when the lattice spacing tends to…

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We consider the torsional rigidity and the principal eigenvalue related to the Laplace operator with Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions. The goal is to find upper and lower bounds to products of suitable powers of the quantities above…

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This paper is concerned with the homogenization of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem, posed in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2$, for a vectorial elliptic operator $-\nabla\cdot A^\epsilon(\cdot)\nabla$ with $\epsilon$-periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Christophe Prange

The aim of this work is to provide an upper bound on the eigenvalues counting function $N(\mathbb{R}^n,-\Delta+V,e)$ of a Sch\"odinger operator $-\Delta +V$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ corresponding to a potential $V\in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Fabio E. G. Cipriani

In this paper we study some relationships between the first Dirichlet eigenvalue $\Lambda(\Omega)$ and the torsional rigidity $T(\Omega)$ of a domain $\Omega$. We consider the problem of optimizing the product $\Lambda(\Omega)T(\Omega)$…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Vincenzo Amato , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti , Federico Villone

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $R^n$ with $C^2$-smooth boundary of co-dimension 1, and let $H=-\Delta +V(x)$ be a Schr\"odinger operator on $\Omega$ with potential V locally bounded. We seek the weakest conditions we can find on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gh. Nenciu , I. Nenciu

We consider twisted eigenvalues $\lambda_{1}^{g}(\Omega)$, defined as the minimum of the Rayleigh quotient of functions in $H^1_{0}(\Omega)$ that are orthogonal to a given function $g\in L^2_\text{loc}(\mathbb R^d)$. We prove an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Emanuele Salato , Davide Zucco

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…

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We investigate Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ whose curvature operator of the second kind $\mathring{R}$ satisfies the condition \begin{equation*} \alpha^{-1} (\lambda_1 +\cdots +\lambda_{\alpha}) > - \theta \bar{\lambda}, \end{equation*}…

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For a Schr\"odinger operator on the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ with electric potential $V$ and Aharonov--Bohm magnetic field we obtain an upper bound on the number of its negative eigenvalues in terms of the $L^1(\mathbb{R}^2)$-norm of $V$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Ari Laptev , Larry Read , Lukas Schimmer

We give a lower estimate of the gap of the first two eigenvalues of the Schrodinger operator in the case when the potential is strongly convex. In particular, if the Hessian of the potential is bounded from below by a positive constant, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-16 Shing-Tung Yau

This paper is dedicated to the regularity of the optimal sets for the second eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian. Precisely, we prove that if the set $\Omega$ minimizes the functional \[ \mathcal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Dario Mazzoleni , Baptiste Trey , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this paper we consider the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1(\Omega)$ of the Grushin operator $\Delta_G:=\Delta_{x_1}+|x_1|^{2s}\Delta_{x_2}$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^d=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Paolo Luzzini , Luigi Provenzano , Joachim Stubbe

A stability result in terms of the perimeter is obtained for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian operator. In particular, we prove that, once we fix the dimension $n\geq2$, there exists a constant $c>0$, depending only on $n$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Gloria Paoli

We consider one dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger operators $H_\lambda=-\frac{d^2}{dx^2}+U+ \lambda V_\lambda$ with nonlinear dependence on the parameter $\lambda$ and study the small $\lambda$ behaviour of eigenvalues. The potentials $U$ and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Yuriy Golovaty

Given a bounded open set $\Omega\subseteq{\mathbb{R}}^n$, we consider the eigenvalue problem of a nonlinear mixed local/nonlocal operator with vanishing conditions in the complement of $\Omega$. We prove that the second eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Stefano Biagi , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Eugenio Vecchi

We describe a highly efficient numerical scheme for finding two-sided bounds for the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplace operator (-Delta)^{alpha/2} in the unit ball D in R^d, with a Dirichlet condition in the complement of D. The…

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