Wolf-Keller theorem for Neumann eigenvalues

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Authors Guillaume Poliquin, Guillaume Roy-Fortin

Publication date 8 July 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4771

zbMATH Keywords

maximizationNeumann eigenvaluesplanar domainsSzegö-Weinberger inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40)

Abstract: The classical Szego-Weinberger inequality states that among bounded planar domains of given area, the first nonzero Neumann eigenvalue is maximized by a disk. Recently, it was shown by Girouard, Nadirashvili and Polterovich that, for simply connected planar domains of given area, the second nonzero Neumann eigenvalue is maximized in the limit by a sequence of domains degenerating to a disjoint union of two identical disks. We prove that Neumann eigenvalues of planar domains of fixed area are not always maximized by a disjoint union of arbitrary disks. This is an analogue of a result by Wolf and Keller proved earlier for Dirichlet eigenvalues.

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• Numerical optimization of low eigenvalues of the Dirichlet and Neumann laplacians
• Extremal eigenvalues of the Laplacian on Euclidean domains and closed surfaces
• New numerical results for the optimization of Neumann eigenvalues

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