Generalization Of An Inequality Of G. Pólya Concerning The Eigenfrequences Of Vibrating Bodies
Global minimizer of the ground state for two phase conductors in low contrast regime
The problem of distributing two conducting materials with a prescribed volume ratio in a ball so as to minimize the first eigenvalue of an elliptic operator with Dirichlet conditions is considered in two and three dimensions. The gap ε between the two conductivities is assumed to be small (low contrast regime). The main result of the paper is to show, using asymptotic expansions with respect to ε and to small geometric perturbations of the optimal shape, that the global minimum of the first eigenvalue...
Ground states of singularly perturbed convection-diffusion equation with oscillating coefficients
We study the first eigenpair of a Dirichlet spectral problem for singularly perturbed convection-diffusion operators with oscillating locally periodic coefficients. It follows from the results of [A. Piatnitski and V. Rybalko, On the first eigenpair of singularly perturbed operators with oscillating coefficients. Preprint www.arxiv.org, arXiv:1206.3754] that the first eigenvalue remains bounded only if the integral curves of the so-called effective drift have a nonempty ω-limit set. Here we consider...