Mirror couplings and Neumann eigenfunctions

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2008.57.3222MaRDI QIDQ3520525zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rami Atar, K. Burdzy

Publication date 26 August 2008

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607400

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalueMirror couplingpartial order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30) Brownian motion (60J65)

Abstract: We analyze a pair of reflected Brownian motions in a planar domain $D$, for which the increments of both processes form mirror images of each other when the processes are not on the boundary. We show that for $D$ in a class of smooth convex planar domains, the two processes remain ordered forever, according to a certain partial order. This is used to prove that the second eigenvalue is simple for the Laplacian with Neumann boundary conditions for the same class of domains.

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