Conjecture on polygonal extremals in the convex -diagram
Conjecture on polygonal extremals in the convex -diagram
Let be the -diagram for planar convex domains, with domains normalized to have area . Let be a ball, let be the equilateral triangle of unit area, and write and for the first Dirichlet and Neumann eigenvalues. For a fixed , consider maximizers of among convex domains satisfying and .
Conjecture on polygonal extremals. Except for the ball, domains on the upper boundary of are polygonal; regular polygons lie on that upper boundary; and there exists such that: if , a maximizer is a superequilateral triangle; if , a maximizer is a rectangle; and at , both a rectangle and a superequilateral triangle solve the maximization problem.
These claims are based on numerical experiments with random convex polygons. They propose a detailed description of the upper boundary and its extremal domains, but no proof or resolution is supplied in the text.
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Ilias Ftouhi and Antoine Henrot, “The diagram (λ_1,μ_1)”, arXiv:2501.02283 (2025).
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