E. Oudet's regular-polygon conjecture for the Steklov maximizer

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Let CN\mathcal{C}_{N} be the class of convex polygons in R2\mathbb{R}^2 with at most NN sides and perimeter 2π2\pi, and let Ω\Omega^* be a maximizer of the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue σ1\sigma_1 over this class. The preceding existence and non-degeneracy conjecture asserts that such a maximizer exists and has exactly NN sides. E. Oudet's regular-polygon conjecture. The maximizer Ω\Omega^* must be a regular NN-gon. This stronger Pólya-type conjecture was proposed by E. Oudet at an AIM workshop in 2018. The supplied context gives no resolution status.

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Zhuo Cheng, Changfeng Gui, Yeyao Hu, Qinfeng Li and Ruofei Yao, “Monotonicity of the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue of regular N-gon with fixed perimeter”, arXiv:2603.25116 (2026).

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