Given a bounded open set $\Omega$ in ${ℝ}^n$ (or in a Riemannian manifold) and a partition of $\Omega$ by $k$ open sets $D_j$, we consider the quantity ${\mathrm{𝚖𝚊𝚡}}_j\lambda \left(D_j\right)$ where $\lambda \left(D_j\right)$ is the ground state energy of the Dirichlet realization of the Laplacian in $D_j$. If we denote by ${ℒ}_k\left(\Omega \right)$ the infimum over all the $k$-partitions of ${\mathrm{𝚖𝚊𝚡}}_j\lambda \left(D_j\right)$, a minimal $k$-partition is then a partition which realizes the infimum. When $k=2$, we find the two nodal domains of a second eigenfunction, but the analysis of higher $k$’s is non trivial and quite interesting. In this paper, we give...

In this paper we derive results concerning the angular distrubition of the eigenvalues and the completeness of the principal vectors in certain function spaces for an oblique derivative problem involving an indefinite weight function for a second order elliptic operator defined in a bounded region.

We consider Schrödinger operators H = -Δ/2 + V (V≥0 and locally bounded) with Dirichlet boundary conditions, on any open and connected subdomain $D\subset {ℝ}^n$ which either is bounded or satisfies the condition $d(x,D^c)\to 0$ as |x| → ∞. We prove exponential decay at the boundary of all the eigenfunctions of H whenever V diverges sufficiently fast at the boundary ∂D, in the sense that $d{(x,D^C)}^{2}V\left(x\right)\to \infty$ as $d(x,D^C)\to 0$. We also prove bounds from above and below for Tr(exp[-tH]), and in particular we give criterions for the finiteness of such trace....

In this paper the problem of homogeneization for the Laplace operator in partially perforated domains with small cavities and the Neumann boundary conditions on the boundary of cavities is studied. The corresponding spectral problem is also considered.

We consider a Schrödinger-type differential expression $H_V={\nabla }^{*}\nabla +V$, where $\nabla$ is a $C^{\infty }$-bounded Hermitian connection on a Hermitian vector bundle $E$ of bounded geometry over a manifold of bounded geometry $(M,g)$ with metric $g$ and positive $C^{\infty }$-bounded measure $d\mu$, and $V$ is a locally integrable section of the bundle of endomorphisms of $E$. We give a sufficient condition for $m$-sectoriality of a realization of $H_V$ in $L^2\left(E\right)$. In the proof we use generalized Kato’s inequality as well as a result on the positivity of $u\in L^2\left(M\right)$ satisfying the...

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N,N\>1$ and let $n\in {\mathbb{N}}^{*}$. We prove here the existence of nonnegative solutions $u_n$ in $BV\left(\Omega \right)$, to the problem$$\left(P_n\right)\left\{\begin{array}{cc}-div\sigma +2n\left({\int }_{\Omega }u-1\right){sign}^{+}\left(u\right)=0\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \\ \sigma ·\nabla u=\left|\nabla u\right|\hfill & \text{in}\Omega ,\hfill \\ u\text{is}\text{not}\text{identically}\text{zero},-\sigma ·\overrightarrow{n}u=u\hfill & \text{on}\partial \Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$where $\overrightarrow{n}$ denotes the unit outer normal to $\partial \Omega$, and ${\mathrm{sign}}^{+}\left(u\right)$ denotes some $L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ function defined as:$${\mathrm{sign}}^{+}\left(u\right).u=u^{+},0\le {\mathrm{sign}}^{+}\left(u\right)\le 1.$$Moreover, we prove the tight convergence of $u_n$ towards one of the first eingenfunctions for the first $1-$Laplacian Operator $-{\Delta }_1$ on $\Omega$ when $n$ goes to $+\infty$.