Small-parameter stability conjecture for Courant-sharp Robin eigenvalues on the square

Let the Robin eigenvalues on the square be indexed in increasing order, with Robin parameter h>0h>0, and call an eigenvalue Courant-sharp when it has an eigenfunction whose number of nodal domains equals its index. The case h=0h=0 is the Neumann problem.

Small-parameter stability conjecture. There exists h0>0h_0>0 such that for 0<hh00<h\leq h_0, the Courant-sharp cases for the Robin problem are the same, except the fifth one, as those for h=0h=0 (i.e. the Neumann case).

This conjecture concerns the behavior of Courant-sharp Robin eigenvalues as the Robin parameter tends to zero. It is proposed for future work; the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Katie Gittins and Bernard Helffer, “Courant-sharp Robin eigenvalues for the square and other planar domains”, arXiv:1812.09344 (2019).

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