We consider the variational problem         inf{αλ1(Ω) + βλ2(Ω) + (1 − α − β)λ3(Ω) | Ω open in ℝn, |Ω| ≤ 1}, for α, β ∈ [0, 1], α + β ≤ 1, where λk(Ω) is the kth eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian acting in L2(Ω) and |Ω| is the Lebesgue measure of Ω. We investigate for which values of α, β every minimiser is connected.

Soit $M$ une variété hyperbolique compacte de dimension 3, de diamètre $d$ et de volume $\le V$. Si on note ${\mu }_i\left(M\right)$ la $i$-ième valeur propre du laplacien de Hodge-de Rham agissant sur les 1-formes coexactes de $M$, on montre que ${\mu }_1\left(M\right)\ge \frac{c}{d^3{e}^{2kd}}$ et ${\mu }_{k+1}\left(M\right)\ge \frac{c}{d^2}$, où $c\>0$ est une constante ne dépendant que de $V$, et $k$ est le nombre de composantes connexes de la partie mince de $M$. En outre, on montre que pour toute 3-variété hyperbolique $M_{\infty }$ de volume fini avec cusps, il existe une suite $M_i$ de remplissages compacts de $M_{\infty }$, de diamètre $d_i\to +\infty$ telle que et ${\mu }_1\left(M_i\right)\ge \frac{c}{d_i^2}$.

We state a superconvergence result for the lowest order Raviart-Thomas approximation of eigenvalue problems. It is known that a similar superconvergence result holds for the mixed approximation of Laplace problem; here we introduce a new proof, since the one given for the source problem cannot be generalized in a straightforward way to the eigenvalue problem. Numerical experiments confirm the superconvergence property and suggest that it also holds for the lowest order Brezzi-Douglas-Marini...

We prove two explicit bounds for the multiplicities of Steklov eigenvalues ${\sigma }_k$ on compact surfaces with boundary. One of the bounds depends only on the genus of a surface and the index $k$ of an eigenvalue, while the other depends as well on the number of boundary components. We also show that on any given Riemannian surface with smooth boundary the multiplicities of Steklov eigenvalues ${\sigma }_k$ are uniformly bounded in $k$.