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Bruno Colbois

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arXiv2018

Compact manifolds with fixed boundary and large Steklov eigenvalues

Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. Let b>0 be the number of connected components of its boundary. For manifolds of dimension at least 3, we prove that it is possible to obtain an arbitrarily large (b+1)-th Steklov eigenvalue using a smooth conformal perturbation which is supported in a thin neighbourhood of the boundary, identically equal to 1 on the boundary. For j<b+1, it is also possible to obtain arbitrarily large j-th eigenvalue, but this require the conformal factor to spread throughout the interior of the manifold M. This is in stark contrast with the situation for the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator on a closed manifold, where a conformal factor that is large enough for the volume to become unbounded results in the spectrum collapsing to 0. We also prove that it is possible to obtain large Steklov eigenvalues while keeping different boundary components arbitrarily close to each other, by constructing a convenient Riemannian submersion.

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arXiv2018

Steklov eigenvalues of submanifolds with prescribed boundary in Euclidean space

We obtain upper and lower bounds for Steklov eigenvalues of submanifolds with prescribed boundary in Euclidean space. A very general upper bound is proved, which depends only on the geometry of the fixed boundary and on the measure of the interior. Sharp lower bounds are given for hypersurfaces of revolution with connected boundary: we prove that each eigenvalue is uniquely minimized by the ball. We also observe that each surface of revolution with connected boundary is isospectral to the disk.

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arXiv2017

Eigenvalue upper bounds for the magnetic Schroedinger operator

We study the eigenvalues of the magnetic Schroedinger operator associated with a magnetic potential A and a scalar potential q, on a compact Riemannian manifold M, with Neumann boundary conditions if the boundary is not empty. We obtain several bounds for the spectrum. Besides the dimension and the volume of the manifold, the geometric quantity which plays an important role in these estimates is the first eigenvalue of the Hodge-de Rham Laplacian acting on co-exact 1-forms. In the 2-dimensional case, this is nothing but the first positive eigenvalue of the Laplacian acting on functions. As for the dependence of the bounds on the potentials, it brings into play the mean value of the scalar potential q, the L^2-norm of the magnetic field B=dA, and the distance, taken in L^2, between the harmonic component of A and the subspace of all closed 1-forms whose cohomology class is integral (that is, having integral flux around any loop). In particular, this distance is zero when the first cohomology group is trivial.

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arXiv2017

Lower bounds for the first eigenvalue of the magnetic Laplacian

We consider a Riemannian cylinder endowed with a closed potential 1-form A and study the magnetic Laplacian with magnetic Neumann boundary conditions associated with those data. We establish a sharp lower bound for the first eigenvalue and show that the equality characterizes the situation where the metric is a product. We then look at the case of a planar domain bounded by two closed curves and obtain an explicit lower bound in terms of the geometry of the domain. We finally discuss sharpness of this last estimate.

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arXiv2017

Eigenvalues of elliptic operators with density

We consider eigenvalue problems for elliptic operators of arbitrary order $2m$ subject to Neumann boundary conditions on bounded domains of the Euclidean $N$-dimensional space. We study the dependence of the eigenvalues upon variations of mass density and in particular we discuss the existence and characterization of upper and lower bounds under both the condition that the total mass is fixed and the condition that the $L^{\frac{N}{2m}}$-norm of the density is fixed. We highlight that the interplay between the order of the operator and the space dimension plays a crucial role in the existence of eigenvalue bounds.

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arXiv2016

The Steklov spectrum and coarse discretizations of manifolds with boundary

We consider the class of compact n-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with cylindrical boundary, Ricci curvature bounded below by a given constant and injectivity radius bounded below by a positive constant, away from the boundary. For a manifold M of this class, we introduce a notion of discretization, leading to a graph with boundary which is roughly isometric to M, with constants depending only on the dimension and bounds on curvature and injectivity radius. In this context, we prove a uniform spectral comparison inequality between the Steklov eigenvalues of the manifold M and those of its discretization. Some applications to the construction of sequences of surfaces with boundary of fixed length and with arbitrarily large Steklov spectral gap are given. In particular, we obtain such a sequence for surfaces with connected boundary. The applications are based on the construction of graph-like surfaces which are obtained from sequences of graphs with good expansion properties.

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arXiv2016

Eigenvalue bounds for the magnetic Laplacian

We consider a compact Riemannian manifold M endowed with a potential 1-form A and study the magnetic Laplacian associated with those data (with Neumann magnetic boundary condition if the bpoundary of M is not empty). We first establish a family of upper bounds for all the eigenvalues, compatible with the Weyl law. When the potential is a closed 1-form, we get a sharp upper bound for the first eigenvalue. In the second part, we consider only closed potentials, and we establish a sharp lower bound for the first eigenvalue when the manifold is a 2-dimensional Riemannian cylinder. The equality case characterizes the situation where the metric is a product. We also look at the case of doubly convex domains in the Euclidean plane.

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arXiv2016

Spectrum of the Laplacian with weights

Given a compact Riemannian manifold (M, g) and two positive functions $ρ$ and $σ$, we are interested in the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet energy functional weighted by $σ$, with respect to the L 2 inner product weighted by $ρ$. Under some regularity conditions on $ρ$ and $σ$, these eigenvalues are those of the operator $ρ$^{-1} div($σ$$\nabla$u) with Neumann conditions on the boundary if $\partial$M = $\emptyset$. We investigate the effect of the weights on eigenvalues and discuss the existence of lower and upper bounds under the condition that the total mass is preserved.

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arXiv2014

Extremal Eigenvalues of the Laplacian on Euclidean domains and closed surfaces

We investigate properties of the sequences of extremal values that could be achieved by the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on Euclidean domains of unit volume, under Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, respectively. In a second part, we study sequences of extremal eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on closed surfaces of unit area.

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arXiv2013

The spectral gap of graphs and Steklov eigenvalues on surfaces

Using expander graphs, we construct a sequence of smooth compact surfaces with boundary of perimeter N, and with the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue uniformly bounded away from zero. This answers a question which was raised in [9]. The genus grows linearly with N, this is the optimal growth rate.

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arXiv2013

Eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a compact manifold with density

In this paper, we study the spectrum of the weighted Laplacian (also called Bakry-Emery or Witten Laplacian) $L_σ$ on a compact, connected, smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ endowed with a measure $σdv_g$. First, we obtain upper bounds for the $k-$th eigenvalue of $L_σ$ which are consistent with the power of $k$ in Weyl's formula. These bounds depend on integral norms of the density $σ$, and in the second part of the article, we give examples showing that this dependence is, in some sense, sharp. As a corollary, we get bounds for the eigenvalues of Laplace type operators, such as the Schrödinger operator or the Hodge Laplacian on $p-$forms. In the special case of the weighted Laplacian on the sphere, we get a sharp inequality for the first nonzero eigenvalue which extends Hersch's inequality.

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arXiv2012

Laplacian and spectral gap in regular Hilbert geometries

We study the spectrum of the Finsler--Laplace operator for regular Hilbert geometries, defined by convex sets with $C^2$ boundaries. We show that for an $n$-dimensional geometry, the spectral gap is bounded above by $(n-1)^2/4$, which we prove to be the infimum of the essential spectrum. We also construct examples of convex sets with arbitrarily small eigenvalues.

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arXiv2012

Uniform stability of the Dirichlet spectrum for rough outer perturbations

The goal of this paper is to study the Dirichlet eigenvalues of bounded domains $Ω\subset Ω'$. With a local spectral stability requirement on $Ω$, we show that the difference of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of $Ω'$ and $Ω$ is explicitly controlled from above in terms of the first eigenvalue of $Ω'\setminus\barΩ$ and of geometric constants depending on the inner domain $Ω$. In particular, $Ω'$ can be an arbitrary bounded domain.

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arXiv2012

Eigenvalues control for a Finsler--Laplace operator

Using the definition of a Finsler--Laplacian given by the first author, we show that two bi-Lipschitz Finsler metrics have a controlled spectrum. We deduce from that several generalizations of Riemannian results. In particular, we show that the spectrum on Finsler surfaces is controlled above by a constant depending on the topology of the surface and on the quasireversibility constant of the metric. In contrast to Riemannian geometry, we then give examples of highly non-reversible metrics on surfaces with arbitrarily large first eigenvalue.

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arXiv2011

Isoperimetric control of the spectrum of a compact hypersurface

Upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a hypersurface bounding a domain in some ambient Riemannian manifold are given in terms of the isoperimetric ratio of the domain. These results are applied to the extrinsic geometry of isometric embeddings.

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arXiv2011

Isoperimetric control of the Steklov spectrum

Let N be a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension n+1 whose Riemannian metric g is conformally equivalent to a metric with non-negative Ricci curvature. The normalized Steklov eigenvalues of a bounded domain in N are bounded above in terms of the isoperimetric ratio of the domain. Consequently, the normalized Steklov eigenvalues of a bounded domain in Euclidean space, hyperbolic space or a standard hemisphere are uniformly bounded above. On a compact surface with boundary, the normalized Steklov eigenvalues are uniformly bounded above in terms of the genus. We also obtain a relationship between the Steklov eigenvalues of a domain and the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on its bounding hypersurface.

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arXiv2009

Bounding the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on compact submanifolds

We give upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the La-place-Beltrami operator of a compact $m$-dimensional submanifold $M$ of $\R^{m+p}$. Besides the dimension and the volume of the submanifold and the order of the eigenvalue, these bounds depend on either the maximal number of intersection points of $M$ with a $p$-plane in a generic position (transverse to $M$), or an invariant which measures the concentration of the volume of $M$ in $\R^{m+p}$. These bounds are asymptotically optimal in the sense of the Weyl law. On the other hand, we show that even for hypersurfaces (i.e., when $p=1$), the first positive eigenvalue cannot be controlled only in terms of the volume, the dimension and (for $m\ge 3$) the differential structure.

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