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First mixed Laplace eigenfunctions with no hot spots

Analysis of PDEs 2024-05-31 v3

Abstract

The hot spots conjecture of J. Rauch states that the second Neumann eigenfunction of the Laplace operator on a bounded Lipschitz domain in Rn\mathbb{R}^n attains its extrema only on the boundary of the domain. We present an analogous problem for domains with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. We then solve this problem for Euclidean triangles and a class of planar domains bounded by the graphs of certain piecewise smooth functions.

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@article{arxiv.2401.01514,
  title  = {First mixed Laplace eigenfunctions with no hot spots},
  author = {Lawford Hatcher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01514},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Formatted and revised for publication in the Proceedings of the AMS. 15 pages, 3 figures

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