Extremal Steklov domain symmetry and uniqueness conjecture

Let ΩR2\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2 be a domain, let Ω|\Omega| denote its area, and let λp(Ω)\lambda_p(\Omega) be its pp-th Steklov eigenvalue. Define the scale-invariant quantity

Λp(Ω)=λp(Ω)Ω,Λp=maxΩR2Λp(Ω).\Lambda_p(\Omega)=\lambda_p(\Omega)\sqrt{|\Omega|},\qquad \Lambda^{p\star}=\max_{\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2}\Lambda_p(\Omega).

Extremal Steklov domain conjecture. The maximizer Ωp\Omega^{p\star} of Λp(Ω)\Lambda_p(\Omega) is unique up to dilations and rigid transformations, has pp-fold symmetry and an axis of symmetry, and the pp-th Steklov eigenvalue has multiplicity 22 if pp is even and multiplicity 33 if p3p\geq 3 is odd. This conjecture is based on computational experiments for pp between 11 and 101101; the stated uniqueness, symmetry, and multiplicity properties remain conjectural in the source.

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Eldar Akhmetgaliyev, Chiu-Yen Kao and Braxton Osting, “Computational Methods For Extremal Steklov Problems”, arXiv:1601.00605 (2016).

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