Pólya–Szegő conjecture for the fundamental tone of regular polygons

Let n3n\geq 3. An nn-gon is a polygon with nn sides, and let λ1\lambda_1 denote its first Dirichlet eigenvalue. Among all nn-gons with fixed area, the regular nn-gon is the polygon under consideration. Pólya–Szegő conjecture. For each n3n\geq 3, the regular nn-gon uniquely minimizes λ1\lambda_1 among all nn-gons with fixed area. This conjecture concerns whether the symmetry of the regular polygon is uniquely distinguished by its fundamental tone. It is known for n=3,4n=3,4, by work of Pólya and Szegő, while the cases n>4n>4 remain open.

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Zhiqin Lu and Julie Rowlett, “The sound of symmetry”, arXiv:2012.05851 (2020).

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