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

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2022.109496zbMATH Open1486.35311arXiv2107.01989OpenAlexW3180349345MaRDI QIDQ2127602FDOQ2127602

Authors: Fabio De Regibus, Massimo Grossi 

Publication date: 20 April 2022

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

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].

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

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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)

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