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In this article we prove a generalization of Weyl's criterion for the essential spectrum of a self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space. We then apply this criterion to the Laplacian on functions over open manifolds and get new results for…

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Consider a quantum particle trapped between a curved layer of constant width built over a complete, non-compact, $\mathcal C^2$ smooth surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We assume that the surface is asymptotically flat in the sense that…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Zhiqin Lu , Julie Rowlett

In this paper, we investigate the Dirichlet problem of Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds. By constructing new trial functions, we obtain a sharp upper bound of the gap of the consecutive eigenvalues in the sense of the order, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Lingzhong Zeng

We consider a singular perturbed eigenvalue problem for Laplace operator in a cylinder with frequent interchange of type of boundary condition on a lateral surface. These boundary conditions are prescribed by partition of lateral surface in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis I. Borisov

The eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on bounded, planar, convex domains with mixed boundary conditions is considered, where a Dirichlet boundary condition is imposed on a part of the boundary and a Neumann boundary condition on its…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Nausica Aldeghi , Jonathan Rohleder

In [SWW16, HW17] it is shown that the difference of the first two eigenvalues of the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary condition on convex domain with diameter $D$ of sphere $\mathbb S^n$ is $\geq 3 \frac{\pi^2}{D^2}$ when $n \geq 3$. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Xianzhe Dai , Shoo Seto , Guofang Wei

We investigate the relation between the eigenvalues of the Laplacian with Kirchhoff vertex conditions on a finite metric graph and a corresponding Titchmarsh-Weyl function (a parameter-dependent Neumann-to-Dirichlet map). We give a complete…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Christian Kühn , Jonathan Rohleder

We consider a planar waveguide with combined Dirichlet and Neumann conditions imposed in a "twisted" way. We study the discrete spectrum and describe it dependence on the configuration of the boundary conditions. In particular, we show that…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Denis Borisov , Giuseppe Cardone

We study the survival probability of a particle diffusing in a two-dimensional domain, bounded by a smooth absorbing boundary. The short-time expansion of this quantity depends on the geometric characteristics of the boundary, whilst its…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-23 P. Kalinay , L. Samaj , I. Travenec

We consider the Laplace operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a domain in R^d and study the effect that performing a scaling in one direction has on the eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions as a function of the scaling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-18 Denis Borisov , Pedro Freitas

The lowest eigenvalue of the Laplacian within the S-sided regular polygon with Dirichlet boundary conditions is the focus of this report. As suggested by others, this eigenvalue may be expressed as an asymptotic expansion in powers of 1/S…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Robert Stephen Jones

On a finite connected metric graph, we establish upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian. These bounds depend on the length, the Betti number, and the number of pendant vertices. For trees, these estimates are sharp. We also…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Sinan Ariturk

We investigate the discrete spectrum of the Hamiltonian describing a quantum particle living in the two-dimensional curved strip. We impose the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on opposite sides of the strip. The existence of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jaroslav Dittrich , Jan Kriz

We consider the Laplacian in curved tubes of arbitrary cross-section rotating together with the Frenet frame along curves in Euclidean spaces of arbitrary dimension, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on the cylindrical surface and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Exner , P. Freitas , D. Krejcirik

It is conjectured that the Laplacian spectrum of a graph is majorized by its conjugate degree sequence. In this paper, we prove that this majorization holds for a class of graphs including trees. We also show that a generalization of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tamon Stephen

We consider the spectrum of a Schroedinger operator in a multi-dimensional cylinder perturbed by a shrinking potential. We study the phenomenon of a new eigenvalue emerging from the threshold of the essential spectrum and give the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Bikmetov , R. Gadyl'shin

We study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a spectral problem for the Laplacian in a domain with rapidly oscillating boundary. We consider the case where the eigenvalue of the limit problem is multiple. We construct the leading…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Youcef Amirat , Gregory A. Chechkin , Rustem R. Gadyl'shin

We develop eigenvalue estimates for the Laplacians on discrete and metric graphs using different types of boundary conditions at the vertices of the metric graph. Via an explicit correspondence of the equilateral metric and discrete graph…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Olaf Post , Fernando Lledo

Concerning the Laplace operator with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, the classical notion of isospectrality assumes that two domains are related when they give rise to the same spectrum. In two dimensions, non isometric,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Lorella Fatone , Daniele Funaro

We investigate the discrete spectrum of the Hamiltonian describing a quantum particle living in the two-dimensional straight strip. We impose the combined Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on different parts of the boundary. Several…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jaroslav Dittrich , Jan Kriz