Concavity conjecture for the second Robin eigenvalue
Concavity conjecture for the second Robin eigenvalue
Let be a convex bounded domain, and let denote its second Robin eigenvalue for parameter .
Second-eigenvalue concavity conjecture. The function is concave in . Concavity is known for domains with a suitable symmetry, including balls and rectangular boxes; the source also proves strict concavity for the first two eigenvalues of rectangular boxes for every real . Nonconcavity may occur for negative on general convex domains, so the positive-parameter assertion remains open.
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Richard S. Laugesen, “The Robin Laplacian - spectral conjectures, rectangular theorems”, arXiv:1905.07658 (2019).
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