By applying Mountain Pass Lemma, Ekeland's and Ricceri's variational principle, Fountain Theorem, we prove the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the following Robin problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{cc} -\text{div}\left( a(x)\left\vert \nabla u\right\vert ^{p(x)-2}\nabla u\right) =λb(x)\left\vert u\right\vert ^{q(x)-2}u, & x\in Ω\\ a(x)\left\vert \nabla u\right\vert ^{p(x)-2}\frac{\partial u}{\partial \upsilon }+β(x)\left\vert u\right\vert ^{p(x)-2}u=0, & x\in \partial Ω, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} under some appropriate conditions in the space $W_{a,b}^{1,p(.)}\left( Ω\right).$
We study some properties of Laplacian eigenvalues with negative Robin boundary conditions. We will show some monotonicity properties on annuli of the first eigenvalue by means of shape optimization techniques.
We prove that every eigenvalue of a Robin problem with boundary parameter $α$ on a sufficiently smooth domain behaves asymptotically like $-α^2$ as $α\to \infty$. This generalises an existing result for the first eigenvalue.
In this paper we study the main properties of the first eigenvalue and its eigenfunctions of a class of highly nonlinear elliptic operators in a bounded Lipschitz domain, assuming a Robin boundary condition. Moreover, we prove a Faber-Krahn inequality.
In this paper, we prove an upper bound for the first Robin eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian with a positive boundary parameter and a quantitative version of the reverse Faber-Krahn type inequality for the first Robin eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian with negative boundary parameter, among convex sets with prescribed perimeter. The proofs are based on a comparison argument obtained by means of inner sets, introduced by Payne, Weimberger and Polya.
We prove the existence of an optimal partition for the multiphase shape optimization problem which consists in minimizing the sum of the first Robin Laplacian eigenvalue of $k$ mutually disjoint {\it open} sets which have a $\mathcal H ^ {d-1}$-countably rectifiable boundary and are contained into a given box $D$ in $R^d$
The considered Robin problem can formally be seen as a small perturbation of a Dirichlet problem. However, due to the sign of the impedance value, its associated eigenvalues converge point-wise to $-\infty$ as the perturbation goes to zero. We prove that in this case, Dirichlet eigenpairs are the only accumulation points of the Robin eigenpairs with normalized eigenvectors. We then provide a criteria to select accumulating sequences of eigenvalues and eigenvectors and exhibit their full asymptotic with respect to the small parameter.
The paper is devoted to the study of some properties of the first eigenvalue of the anisotropic $p$-Laplace operator with Robin boundary condition involving a function $β$ which in general is not constant. In particular we obtain sharp lower bounds in terms of the measure of the domain and we prove a monotonicity property of the eigenvalue with respect the set inclusion.
We consider a superlinear perturbation of the eigenvalue problem for the Robin Laplacian plus an indefinite and unbounded potential. Using variational tools and critical groups, we show that when $λ$ is close to a nonprincipal eigenvalue, then the problem has seven nontrivial solutions. We provide sign information for six of them.
We prove two bounds for the first Robin eigenvalue of the Finsler Laplacian with negative boundary parameter in the planar case. In the constant area problem, we show that the Wulff shape is the maximizer only for values which are close to 0 of the boundary parameter and, in the fixed perimeter case, that the Wulff shape maximizes the first eigenvalue for all values of the parameter.
In this paper we study double phase problems with nonlinear boundary condition and gradient dependence. Under quite general assumptions we prove existence results for such problems where the perturbations satisfy a suitable behavior in the origin and at infinity. Our proofs make use of variational tools, truncation techniques and comparison methods. The existence of the obtained solutions depends on the first eigenvalues of the Robin and Steklov eigenvalue problems for the $p$-Laplacian.
This document consists of two papers, both submitted, and supplementary material. The submitted papers are here given as Parts I and II. Part I establishes results, used in Part II, 'on functions and inverses, both positive, decreasing and convex'. Part II uses results from Part I to extablish 'inequalities for the fundamental Robin eigenvalue for the Laplacian on N-dimensional boxes'
Let Ωbe a bounded connected, open set of \R^n with Lipschitz boundary. Let F be a suitable norm in \R^n and let Δ_F u be the so-colled Finsler Laplacian. In this paper we prove two inequalities for the first eigenvalue of Δ_F with Robin boundary conditions involving a positive function β. As a consequence of our result we obtain the asymptotic behavior of this eigenvalue when βis a positive constant which goes to zero.
In this paper, we study the well-posedness of classical solutions to the nonlinear unsteady Prandtl equations with Robin boundary condition in half space in weighted Sobolev spaces. We firstly investigate the monotonic shear flow with Robin boundary condition and the linearized Prandtl-type equations with Robin boundary condition in weighted Sobolev spaces. Due to the degeneracy of the Prandtl equations and the loss of regularity, we apply the Nash-Moser-Hormander iteration scheme to prove the existence of classical solutions to the nonlinear Prandtl equations with Robin boundary condition whe…
In this paper we study a Steklov-Robin eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian in annular domains. More precisely, we consider $Ω=Ω_0 \setminus \overline{B}_{r}$, where $B_{r}$ is the ball centered at the origin with radius $r>0$ and $Ω_0\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, is an open, bounded set with Lipschitz boundary, such that $\overline{B}_{r}\subset Ω_0$. We impose a Steklov condition on the outer boundary and a Robin condition involving a positive $L^{\infty}$-function $β(x)$ on the inner boundary. Then, we study the first eigenvalue $σ_β(Ω)$ and its main properties. In particular, we investi…
The eigenvalue problem for the p-Laplace operator with Robin boundary condition is considered in this paper. A Faber-Krahn type inequality is proved. More precisely, it is shown that amongst all the domains of fixed volume, the ball has the smallest first eigenvalue.
We consider the problem of minimising the $k$th eigenvalue, $k \geq 2$, of the ($p$-)Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions with respect to all domains in $\mathbb{R}^N$ of given volume $M$. When $k=2$, we prove that the second eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian is minimised by the domain consisting of the disjoint union of two balls of equal volume, and that this is the unique domain with this property. For $p=2$ and $k \geq 3$, we prove that in many cases a minimiser cannot be independent of the value of the constant $α$ in the boundary condition, or equivalently of the volume $M$. We obtain …
We study perturbations of the eigenvalue problem for the negative Laplacian plus an indefinite and unbounded potential and Robin boundary condition. First we consider the case of a sublinear perturbation and then of a superlinear perturbation. For the first case we show that for $λ<\widehatλ_{1}$ ($\widehatλ_{1}$ being the principal eigenvalue) there is one positive solution which is unique under additional conditions on the perturbation term. For $λ\geq\widehatλ_{1}$ there are no positive solutions. In the superlinear case, for $λ<\widehatλ_{1}$ we have at least two positive solutions and for…
The third eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian on a simply-connected planar domain of given area is bounded above by the third eigenvalue of a disjoint union of two disks, provided the Robin parameter lies in a certain range and is scaled in each case by the length of the boundary. Equality is achieved when the domain degenerates suitably to the two disks.
We study the Robin eigenvalue problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Riemannian manifolds. Our first result is a comparison theorem for the second Robin eigenvalue on geodesic balls in manifolds whose sectional curvatures are bounded from above. Our second result asserts that geodesic balls in nonpositively curved space forms maximize the second Robin eigenvalue among bounded domains of the same volume.
We consider a nonlinear Robin problems driven by the $p$-Laplacian plus an indefinite potential. The reaction is resonant with respect to a variational eigenvalue. For the principal eigenvalue we assume strong resonance. Using variational tools and critical groups we prove existence and multiplicity theorems.
In this paper, we prove two results for the Robin eigenvalue problem. One is an upper bound for the ratio of the first two eigenvalues which can be used to recover the PPW conjecture proved by M.S.Ashbaugh and R.D.Benguria, the other is a reverse Holder inequality for the first eigenfunction which is a natural generalization of Chiti's reverse Holder inequality for the first eigenfunction of Dirichlet Laplacian.
We consider the first eigenvalue $λ_1(Ω,σ)$ of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions on a compact Riemannian manifold $Ω$ with smooth boundary, $σ\in\bf R$ being the Robin boundary parameter. When $σ>0$ we give a positive, sharp lower bound of $λ_1(Ω,σ)$ in terms of an associated one-dimensional problem depending on the geometry through a lower bound of the Ricci curvature of $Ω$, a lower bound of the mean curvature of $\partialΩ$ and the inradius. When the boundary parameter is negative, the lower bound becomes an upper bound. In particular, explicit bounds for mean-convex Euclidean do…
We prove that the optimal cluster problem for the sum of the first Robin eigenvalue of the Laplacian, in the limit of a large number of convex cells, is asymptotically solved by (the Cheeger sets of) the honeycomb of regular hexagons. The same result is established for the Robin torsional rigidity.
By means of a suitable weighted rearrangement, we obtain various apriori bounds for the solutions to a Robin problem. Among other things, we derive a family of Faber-Krahn type inequalities.
The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we characterize an essentially optimal class of boundary operators $Θ$ which give rise to self-adjoint Laplacians $-Δ_{Θ, Ω}$ in $L^2(Ω; d^n x)$ with (nonlocal and local) Robin-type boundary conditions on bounded Lipschitz domains $Ω\subset\bbR^n$, $n\in\bbN$, $n\geq 2$. Second, we extend Friedlander's inequalities between Neumann and Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalues to those between nonlocal Robin and Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalues associated with bounded Lipschitz domains $Ω$, following an approach introduced by Filonov for this type of problems.
We study the asymptotic behaviour of the principal eigenvalue of a Robin (or generalised Neumann) problem with a large parameter in the boundary condition for the Laplacian in a piecewise smooth domain. We show that the leading asymptotic term depends only on the singularities of the boundary of the domain, and give either explicit expressions or two-sided estimates for this term in a variety of situations.
On a bounded Lipschitz domain we consider two selfadjoint operator realizations of the same second order elliptic differential expression subject to Robin boundary conditions, where the coefficients in the boundary conditions are functions. We prove that inequality between these functions on the boundary implies strict inequality between the eigenvalues of the two operators, provided that the inequality of the functions in the boundary conditions is strict on an arbitrarily small nonempty, open set.
In this paper we prove that the ball maximizes the first eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian operator with negative boundary parameter, among all convex sets of \mathbb{R}^n with prescribed perimeter. The key of the proof is a dearrangement procedure of the first eigenfunction of the ball on the level sets of the distance function to the boundary of the convex set, which controls the boundary and the volume energies of the Rayleigh quotient.
Among all $C^{\infty}$ bounded domains with equal volume, we show that the second eigenvalue of the Robin plate is uniquely maximized by an open ball, so long as the Robin parameter lies within a particular range of negative values. Our methodology combines recent techniques introduced by Freitas and Laugesen to study the second eigenvalue of the Robin membrane problem and techniques employed by Chasman to study the free plate problem. In particular, we choose eigenfunctions of the ball as trial functions in the Rayleigh quotient for a general domain; such eigenfunctions are comprised of ultra…
In this paper, we prove a quantitative spectral inequality for the second Robin eigenvalue in non-compact rank-1 symmetric spaces. In particular, this shows that for bounded domains in non-compact rank-1 symmetric spaces, the geodesic ball maximises the second Robin eigenvalue among domains of the same volume, with negative Robin parameter in the regime connecting the first nontrivial Neumann and Steklov eigenvalues. This result generalises the work of Freitas and Laugesen in the Euclidean setting [FL21] as well as our previous work in the hyperbolic space [LWW20].
We study the low-lying eigenvalues of the semiclassical Robin Laplacian in a smooth planar domain symmetric with respect to an axis. In the case when the curvature of the boundary of the domain attains its maximum at exactly two points away from the axis of symmetry, we establish an explicit asymptotic formula for the splitting of the first two eigenvalues. This is a rigorous derivation of the semiclassical tunneling effect induced by the domain's geometry. Our approach is close to the Born-Oppenheimer one and yields, as a byproduct, a Weyl formula of independent interest.
The second eigenvalue of the Robin Laplacian is shown to be maximal for the disk among simply-connected planar domains of fixed area when the Robin parameter is scaled by perimeter in the form $α/L(Ω)$, and $α$ lies between $-2π$ and $2π$. Corollaries include Szegő's sharp upper bound on the second eigenvalue of the Neumann Laplacian under area normalization, and Weinstock's inequality for the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue for simply-connected domains of given perimeter. The first Robin eigenvalue is maximal, under the same conditions, for the degenerate rectangle. When area normalization o…
We study a weighted eigenvalue problem with anisotropic diffusion in bounded Lipschitz domains $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^{N} $, $N\ge1$, under Robin boundary conditions, proving the existence of two positive eigenvalues $λ^{\pm}$ respectively associated with a positive and a negative eigenfunction. Next, we analyze the minimization of $λ^{\pm}$ with respect to the sign-changing weight, showing that the optimal eigenvalues $Λ^{\pm}$ are equal and the optimal weights are of bang-bang type, namely piece-wise constant functions, each one taking only two values. As a consequence, the problem is equivale…
In this paper we prove a Faber-Krahn type inequality for the first eigenvalue of the Hermite operator with Robin boundary condition. We prove that the optimal set is an half-space and we also address the equality case in such inequality.
