Hot spots conjecture for simply-connected planar and convex domains

Let Ω\Omega be a simply-connected planar domain, or a convex domain in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, and let uu be a second Neumann eigenfunction of the Laplacian on Ω\Omega.

Hot spots conjecture. The function uu attains its maximum only on the boundary Ω\partial\Omega. The source presents this as the restricted formulation motivated by counterexamples to the original conjecture. The paper establishes the relevant triangle case, while the full assertion for all simply-connected planar domains and all convex domains in every dimension is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Hongbin Chen, Changfeng Gui and Ruofei Yao, “Uniqueness of critical points of the second Neumann eigenfunctions on triangles”, arXiv:2311.12659 (2025).

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