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Inserted: 5 jun 2025
Last Updated: 5 jun 2025

Year: 2025

Abstract:

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be an open set of finite measure and let $\Theta$ be a disjoint union of two balls of half measure. We study the stability of the full Dirichlet spectrum of $\Omega$ when its second eigenvalue is close to the second eigenvalue of $\Theta$. Precisely, for every $k \in \mathbb{N}$, we provide a quantitative control of the difference $
\lambda_k(\Omega)-\lambda_k(\Theta)
$ by the variation of the second eigenvalue $C(d,k)(\lambda_2(\Omega)-\lambda_2(\Theta))^\alpha$, for a suitable exponent $\alpha$ and a positive constant $C(d,k)$ depending only on the dimension of the space and the index $k$. We are able to find such an estimate for general $k$ and arbitrary $\Omega$ with $\alpha =\frac{1}{d+1}$. In the particular case when $\lambda_k(\Omega)\geq \lambda_k(\Theta)$, we can improve the inequality and find an estimate with the sharp exponent $\alpha = \frac{1}{2}$.

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