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We study the spectrum of the Robin Laplacian with a complex Robin parameter $\alpha$ on a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$. We start by establishing a number of properties of the corresponding operator, such as generation properties, local…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Sabine Bögli , James B. Kennedy , Robin Lang

Given a complete non-compact surface embedded in R^3, we consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in a layer of constant width about the surface. Using an intrinsic approach to the layer geometry, we generalise the spectral results of an original…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Carron , P. Exner , D. Krejcirik

We investigate monotonicity properties of eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian in polyhedral layers of fixed width. We establish that eigenvalues below the essential spectrum threshold monotonically depend on geometric parameters defining…

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Let $-\Delta_{\cal S}$ be the Laplace operator in ${\cal S} \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ on a waveguide shaped surfaces, i.e., ${\cal S}$ is built by translating a closed curve in a constant direction along an unbounded spatial curve. Under the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Diana C. S. Bello

We consider spectral problems for Laplace operator in 3D rod structures with a small cross section of diameter $O(\varepsilon)$, $\varepsilon$ being a positive parameter. The boundary conditions are Dirichlet (Neumann, respectively) on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Pablo Benavent-Ocejo , Delfina Gómez , Maria-Eugenia Pérez-Martínez

We study the spectrum of the Laplace operator of a complete minimal properly immersed hypersurface $M$ in $\R^{n+1}$. (1) Under a volume growth condition on extrinsic balls and a condition on the unit normal at infinity, we prove that $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-13 Pedro Freitas , Isabel Salavessa

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in a family of narrow unbounded domains. As the width of these domains goes to 0, we study the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues that lie below the essential spectrum and the asymptotic behavior of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Leonid Friedlander , Michael Solomyak

For any bounded regular domain $\Omega$ of a real analytic Riemannian manifold $M$, we denote by $\lambda_{k}(\Omega)$ the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian of $\Omega$. In this paper, we consider $\lambda_k$ and as a functional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-25 Ahmad El Soufi , Saïd Ilias

We consider a natural generalization of the eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. This corresponds to look for the critical values of the Dirichlet integral, constrained to the unit $L^q$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Lorenzo Brasco , Giovanni Franzina

In this paper we study an interacting two-particle system on the positive half-line. We focus on spectral properties of the Hamiltonian for a large class of two-particle potentials. We characterize the essential spectrum and prove, as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Sebastian Egger , Joachim Kerner , Konstantin Pankrashkin

We introduce a variational notion of essential spectrum for the Dirichlet $p-$Laplacian. We then extend the classical Persson Theorem to this nonlinear setting. This result provides a geometric characterization of the bottom of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Lorenzo Brasco , Luca Briani , Giovanni Franzina

We consider the spectral problem for the Grushin Laplacian subject to homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded open subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$. We prove that the symmetric functions of the eigenvalues depend real analytically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Pier Domenico Lamberti , Paolo Luzzini , Paolo Musolino

We consider a pair of parallel straight quantum waveguides coupled laterally through a window of a width $ \ell $ in the common boundary. We show that such a system has at least one bound state for any $ \ell>0 $. We find the corresponding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Exner , P. Šeba , M. Tater , D. Vaněk

We perform quantitative spectral analysis of the self-adjoint Dirichlet Laplacian $\mathsf{H}$ on an unbounded, radially symmetric (generalized) parabolic layer $\mathcal{P}\subset\mathbb{R}^3$. It was known before that $\mathsf{H}$ has an…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Pavel Exner , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We study the nature of the essential spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian in tubes about infinite curves embedded in Euclidean spaces. Under suitable assumptions about the decay of curvatures at infinity, we prove the absence of singular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Krejcirik , Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa

The purpose of this paper is to explore the asymptotics of the eigenvalue spectrum of the Laplacian on 2 dimensional spaces of constant curvature, giving strong experimental evidence for a conjecture of the second author…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Timothy Murray , Robert S. Strichartz

Quantum graphs have attracted attention from mathematicians for some time. A quantum graph is defined by having a Laplacian on each edge of a metric graph and imposing boundary conditions at the vertices to get an eigenvalue problem. A…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Mats-Erik Pistol , Pavel Kurasov

We prove sharp criteria on the behavior of radial curvature for the existence of asymptotically flat or hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds with prescribed sets of eigenvalues embedded in the spectrum of the Laplacian. In particular, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Svetlana Jitomirskaya , Wencai Liu

We consider a twisted quantum wave guide, and are interested in the spectral analysis of the associated Dirichlet Laplacian H. We show that if the derivative of rotation angle decays slowly enough at infinity, then there is an infinite…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Philippe Briet , Hynek Kovarik , Georgi Raikov , Eric Soccorsi

We consider eigenvalues of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator for Laplacian in the domain (or manifold) with edges and establish the asymptotics of the eigenvalue counting function \begin{equation*} \mathsf{N}(\lambda)= \kappa_0\lambda^d…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Victor Ivrii