The hot spots conjecture can be false: some numerical examples

DOI10.1007/S10444-021-09911-5zbMATH Open1487.35204arXiv2101.01210OpenAlexW3118946389WikidataQ113904634 ScholiaQ113904634MaRDI QIDQ824322FDOQ824322

Andreas Kleefeld

Publication date: 15 December 2021

Published in: Advances in Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The hot spots conjecture is only known to be true for special geometries. It can be shown numerically that the hot spots conjecture can fail to be true for easy to construct bounded domains with one hole. The underlying eigenvalue problem for the Laplace equation with Neumann boundary condition is solved with boundary integral equations yielding a non-linear eigenvalue problem. Its discretization via the boundary element collocation method in combination with the algorithm by Beyn yields highly accurate results both for the first non-zero eigenvalue and its corresponding eigenfunction which is due to superconvergence. Additionally, it can be shown numerically that the ratio between the maximal/minimal value inside the domain and its maximal/minimal value on the boundary can be larger than $1+10^{-3}$. Finally, numerical examples for easy to construct domains with up to five holes are provided which fail the hot spots conjecture as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01210

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary integral equationsHelmholtz equationpotential theorynumericsinterior Neumann eigenvalues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices (65F15) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Boundary element methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M38)

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