Length-scaled Robin spectral-ratio conjecture for convex planar domains

Let Ω\Omega be a convex bounded planar domain with perimeter L=L(Ω)L=L(\Omega), and let λ1(Ω;α)\lambda_1(\Omega;\alpha) and λ2(Ω;α)\lambda_2(\Omega;\alpha) be the first two Robin eigenvalues.

Length-scaled spectral-ratio conjecture. For every α2π\alpha\geq-2\pi, the quantity

λ2(Ω;α/L)λ1(Ω;α/L)\frac{\lambda_2(\Omega;\alpha/L)}{|\lambda_1(\Omega;\alpha/L)|}

is maximized when Ω\Omega is a disk. The source proves the analogous assertion for simply connected planar domains over [2π,2π][-2\pi,2\pi] for the unratioed second eigenvalue and proves the rectangle case, but leaves this convex-domain spectral-ratio statement as a conjecture.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Richard S. Laugesen, “The Robin Laplacian - spectral conjectures, rectangular theorems”, arXiv:1905.07658 (2019).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.