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Upper bounds for Courant-sharp Neumann and Robin eigenvalues

Spectral Theory 2026-02-19 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on an open, bounded, connected set in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with C2C^2 boundary, with a Neumann boundary condition or a Robin boundary condition. We obtain upper bounds for those eigenvalues that have a corresponding eigenfunction which achieves equality in Courant's Nodal Domain theorem. In the case where the set is also assumed to be convex, we obtain explicit upper bounds in terms of some of the geometric quantities of the set. Corrigendum. A previous version of this work was accepted and published by the "Bulletin de la Soci\'et\'e Math\'ematique de France" (see [2] in the bibliography of Appendix B). It contained a gap: the classical (Euclidean) Faber-Krahn inequality was applied in a setting where it might not hold. This version reproduces the previous one with the addition of a corrigendum in Appendix B that addresses the issue. All the results in Sections 2--8 and most of those in Section 9 are thus preserved.

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@article{arxiv.1810.09950,
  title  = {Upper bounds for Courant-sharp Neumann and Robin eigenvalues},
  author = {Katie Gittins and Corentin Léna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09950},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

32 pages. The previous version (v2) was published in the "Bulletin de la Soci\'et\'e Math\'ematique de France" (volume 148, issue 1, 2020, pages 99-132; doi.org/10.24033/bsmf.2800). It contained a gap which is addressed in a corrigendum to appear in the same journal. The accepted corrigendum was added to this version as an appendix

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