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Stability and instability issues of the Weinstock inequality

Analysis of PDEs 2020-06-05 v2

Abstract

Given two planar, conformal, smooth open sets Ω\Omega and ω\omega, we prove the existence of a sequence of smooth sets Ωn\Omega_n which geometrically converges to Ω\Omega and such that the (perimeter normalized) Steklov eigenvalues of Ωn\Omega_n converge to the ones of ω\omega. As a consequence, we answer a question raised by Girouard and Polterovich on the stability of the Weinstock inequality and prove that the inequality is genuinely unstable. However, under some a priori knowledge of the geometry related to the oscillations of the boundaries, stability may occur.

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@article{arxiv.2004.07784,
  title  = {Stability and instability issues of the Weinstock inequality},
  author = {Dorin Bucur and Mickaël Nahon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.07784},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

typos corrected in section 2 and 4, statement of main result was precised

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