The multiplicity-two conjecture for the second Dirichlet eigenvalue on simply connected planar domains
The multiplicity-two conjecture for the second Dirichlet eigenvalue on simply connected planar domains
Let be a bounded simply connected domain, and let be its second Dirichlet eigenvalue. Write for the multiplicity of this eigenvalue.
Multiplicity-two conjecture.
for any simply connected bounded domain .
The bound is known for convex domains and domains for which the nodal line conjecture holds. It is motivated by the sharp multiplicity bound for general non-simply-connected planar domains, and remains open in the stated generality.
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Pierre Bérard and Bernard Helffer, “Upper bounds on eigenvalue multiplicities for spheres and plane domains revisited”, arXiv:2202.06587 (2026).
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