Baur's magnetic Faber–Krahn conjecture for higher eigenvalues
Baur's magnetic Faber–Krahn conjecture for higher eigenvalues
Let be a bounded simply-connected planar domain with area , and let . For a homogeneous magnetic field of strength , let denote the th eigenvalue of the shifted magnetic Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Let be the disk of unit area. Baur's conjecture. For all ,
This conjecture proposes that, above the threshold , the unit-area disk minimizes the th eigenvalue among bounded simply-connected planar domains. It is motivated by numerical evidence and by the expected tendency of optimal domains for magnetic eigenvalues to become more symmetric as the magnetic field grows; its resolution is not given here.
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Primary source
Vladimir Lotoreichik and Léo Morin, “On shape optimization with large magnetic fields in two dimensions”, arXiv:2509.08412 (2025).
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