On the number of critical points of the second eigenfunction of the Laplacian in convex planar domains

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2022.109496MaRDI QIDQ2127602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabio De Regibus, Massimo Grossi

Publication date 20 April 2022

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01989

zbMATH Keywords

eigenfunctionscritical pointstopological degreeconvex domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Degree, winding number (55M25)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the second eigenfunction of the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions in convex domains. If the domain has emph{large eccentricity} then the eigenfunction has emph{exactly} two nondegenerate critical points (of course they are one maximum and one minimum). The proof uses some estimates proved by Jerison ([Jer95a]) and Grieser-Jerison ([GJ96]) jointly with a topological degree argument. Analogous results for higher order eigenfunctions are proved in rectangular-like domains considered in [GJ09].

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