Rauch's hot spot conjecture for convex and simply connected planar domains
Rauch's hot spot conjecture for convex and simply connected planar domains
Let be a domain in , and let be a second Neumann eigenfunction on . Rauch's hot spot conjecture. If is convex, or if is a simply connected planar domain, then the maximum and minimum of are attained only on the boundary of . This is a positive case of the hot spot problem, which is false for general domains and has counterexamples among planar domains with holes.
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Primary source
Haiyun Deng, Changfeng Gui, Xuyong Jiang, Xiaoping Yang, Ruofei Yao and Jun Zou, “Critical points of the second Neumann eigenfunctions on the quadrangles with symmetry”, arXiv:2604.19003 (2026).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1709.01279, arXiv:1308.3005.
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