Optimisation of the lowest Robin eigenvalue in the exterior of a compact set. II: Non-convex domains and higher dimensions

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DOI10.1007/S11118-018-9752-0zbMATH Open1456.35147arXiv1707.02269OpenAlexW2963658502WikidataQ128625831 ScholiaQ128625831MaRDI QIDQ2183754FDOQ2183754


Authors: David Krejčiřík, V. Lotoreichik Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 May 2020

Published in: Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the problem of geometric optimisation of the lowest eigenvalue of the Laplacian in the exterior of a compact set in any dimension, subject to attractive Robin boundary conditions. As an improvement upon our previous work (arXiv:1608.04896, to appear in J. Convex Anal.), we show that under either a constraint of fixed perimeter or area, the maximiser within the class of exteriors of simply connected planar sets is always the exterior of a disk, without the need of convexity assumption. Moreover, we generalise the result to disconnected compact planar sets. Namely, we prove that under a constraint of fixed average value of the perimeter over all the connected components, the maximiser within the class of disconnected compact planar sets, consisting of finitely many simply connected components, is again a disk. In higher dimensions, we prove a completely new result that the lowest point in the spectrum is maximised by the exterior of a ball among all sets exterior to bounded convex sets satisfying a constraint on the integral of a dimensional power of the mean curvature of their boundaries. Furthermore, it follows that the critical coupling at which the lowest point in the spectrum becomes a discrete eigenvalue emerging from the essential spectrum is minimised under the same constraint by the critical coupling for the exterior of a ball.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02269




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