Concavity properties of solutions to Robin problems

DOI10.4310/CJM.2021.V9.N1.A3MaRDI QIDQ2041481zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Graziano Crasta, Ilaria Fragalà

Publication date 23 July 2021

Published in Cambridge Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07192

zbMATH Keywords

concavityeigenfunctionsRobin boundary conditionstorsion function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Convexity properties of solutions to PDEs with constant coefficients (35E10) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25)

Abstract: We prove that the Robin ground state and the Robin torsion function are respectively log-concave and $frac12$-concave on an uniformly convex domain $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^N$ of class $mathcal{C}^m$, with $[m-fracN2]geq4$, provided the Robin parameter exceeds a critical threshold. Such threshold depends on $N$, $m$, and on the geometry of $Omega$, precisely on the diameter and on the boundary curvatures up to order $m$.

Review text

The authors of this article consider two problems for an open uniformly convex bounded domain \(\Omega\) belonging to class \(\mathcal{C}^m\) in \(N\) dimensions with a boundary \(\partial \Omega\) satisfying \(\lfloor m-N/2\rfloor \geq 4\). Specifically, the Robin ground state of \(\Omega\) is considered: \(-\Delta u=\lambda^\beta u\) in \(\Omega\) and \(\partial_\nu u+\beta u=0\) on \(\partial \Omega\) where \(\lambda^\beta\) is the first Robin eigenvalue of \(\Omega\). Moreover, the Robin torsion function of \(\Omega\) is considered: \(-\Delta u=1\) in \(\Omega\) and \(\partial_\nu u+\beta u=0\) on \(\partial \Omega\). It is shown that they are \(\log\)-concave and \(1/2\)-concave, respectively under the assumption that the Robin parameter is greater a critical threshold depending on \(N\), \(m\) as well as on the geometry of the domain; that is, on the diameter and the curvature.

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• Log-concavity and anti-maximum principles for semilinear and linear elliptic equations
• On asymptotics of Robin eigenvalues in the Dirichlet limit

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