Isoperimetric inequalities for the magnetic Neumann and Steklov problems with Aharonov-Bohm magnetic potential

DOI10.1007/S12220-022-01001-2MaRDI QIDQ2172437zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bruno Colbois, Luigi Provenzano, Alessandro Savo

Publication date 15 September 2022

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11100

zbMATH Keywords

Aharonov-Bohm magnetic potentialground statemagnetic LaplacianNeumann problemreverse Faber-Krahn inequalitySteklov problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators (49Rxx) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We discuss isoperimetric inequalities for the magnetic Laplacian on bounded domains of $mathbb{R}^2$ endowed with an Aharonov-Bohm potential. When the flux of the potential around the pole is not an integer, the lowest eigenvalue for the Neumann and the Steklov problems is positive. We establish isoperimetric inequalitites for the lowest eigenvalue in the spirit of the classical inequalities of Szeg"o-Weinberger, Brock and Weinstock, the model domain being a disk with the pole at its center. We consider more generally domains in the plane endowed with a rotationally invariant metric, which include the spherical and the hyperbolic case.

Review text

The authors are concerned with the Neumann problem for the Aharonov-Bohm magnetic Laplacian on domains of \(\mathbb R^2\) and with the corresponding Steklov problem. Actually for the Neumann problem they also consider the Aharonov-Bohm magnetic Laplacian on domains of surfaces of revolution which are more difficult to study. These problems have a physical motivation since are examples of how the Aharonov-Bohm effect influences the bound states of a quantum particle. The authors are interested in isoperimetric inequalities for the lowest eigenvalue in the spirit of the classical inequalities of Szegő-Weinberger, Brock and Weinstock. They show that, among all domains of given area, the disk with the singularity of the magnetic field at the center is the unique maximizer of the first eigenvalue, which is positive provided that the flux is not an integer. The results are also valid for more general Riemannian surfaces.

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