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Fall 2007 On the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian in an annulus
Liangpan Li
Illinois J. Math. 51(3): 913-925 (Fall 2007). DOI: 10.1215/ijm/1258131110

Abstract

It is shown that the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions in an annulus in a Euclidean space, or in a sphere, or in a hyperbolic space of dimension $n>1$ has multiplicity $n$.

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Liangpan Li. "On the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian in an annulus." Illinois J. Math. 51 (3) 913 - 925, Fall 2007. https://doi.org/10.1215/ijm/1258131110

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Published: Fall 2007
First available in Project Euclid: 13 November 2009

zbMATH: 1155.35017
MathSciNet: MR2379730
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/ijm/1258131110

Subjects:
Primary: 35J05
Secondary: 35P05

Rights: Copyright © 2007 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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