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January  2014, 19(1): 27-53. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.27

Spectral minimal partitions of a sector

Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël 1, and  Corentin Léna 2,

1. 

IRMAR, ENS Cachan Bretagne, Univ. Rennes 1, CNRS, UEB, av Robert Schuman, F-35170 Bruz
2. 

Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, Bât. 425, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France

Received  December 2012 Revised  July 2013 Published  December 2013

In this article, we are interested in determining spectral minimal $k$-partitions for angular sectors. We first deal with the nodal cases for which we can determine explicitly the minimal partitions. Then, in the case where the minimal partitions are not nodal domains of eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet Laplacian, we analyze the possible topologies of these minimal partitions. We first exhibit symmetric minimal partitions by using a mixed Dirichlet-Neumann Laplacian and then use a double covering approach to catch non symmetric candidates. In this way, we improve the known estimates of the energy associated with the minimal partitions.
Keywords: nodal domains, numerical simulations, Spectral theory, finite element method., Aharonov-Bohm Hamiltonian, minimal partitions.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B05, 35J05, 49M25, 65F15, 65N25; Secondary: 65N3.
Citation: Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël, Corentin Léna. Spectral minimal partitions of a sector. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2014, 19 (1) : 27-53. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.27
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References:
[1]

Y. Aharonov and D. Bohm, Significance of electromagnetic potentials in the quantum theory,, Phys. Rev., 115 (1959), 485.  doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.115.485.  Google Scholar

[2]

B. Alziary, J. Fleckinger-Pellé and P. Takáč, Eigenfunctions and Hardy inequalities for a magnetic Schrödinger operator in $\mathbbR^2$,, Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 26 (2003), 1093.  doi: 10.1002/mma.402.  Google Scholar

[3]

V. Bonnaillie-Noël and B. Helffer, Numerical analysis of nodal sets for eigenvalues of Aharonov-Bohm Hamiltonians on the square with application to minimal partitions,, Exp. Math., 20 (2011), 304.  doi: 10.1080/10586458.2011.565240.  Google Scholar

[4]

V. Bonnaillie-Noël, B. Helffer and T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Aharonov-Bohm Hamiltonians, isospectrality and minimal partitions,, J. Phys. A, 42 (2009).  doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/18/185203.  Google Scholar

[5]

V. Bonnaillie-Noël, B. Helffer and G. Vial, Numerical simulations for nodal domains and spectral minimal partitions,, ESAIM Control Optim. Calc. Var., 16 (2010), 221.  doi: 10.1051/cocv:2008074.  Google Scholar

[6]

D. Bucur, G. Buttazzo and A. Henrot, Existence results for some optimal partition problems,, Adv. Math. Sci. Appl., 8 (1998), 571.   Google Scholar

[7]

M. Conti, S. Terracini and G. Verzini, An optimal partition problem related to nonlinear eigenvalues,, J. Funct. Anal., 198 (2003), 160.  doi: 10.1016/S0022-1236(02)00105-2.  Google Scholar

[8]

M. Conti, S. Terracini and G. Verzini, On a class of optimal partition problems related to the Fučík spectrum and to the monotonicity formulae,, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 22 (2005), 45.  doi: 10.1007/s00526-004-0266-9.  Google Scholar

[9]

M. Conti, S. Terracini and G. Verzini, A variational problem for the spatial segregation of reaction-diffusion systems,, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 54 (2005), 779.  doi: 10.1512/iumj.2005.54.2506.  Google Scholar

[10]

R. Courant and D. Hilbert, Methods of mathematical physics. Vol. I,, Interscience Publishers, (1953).   Google Scholar

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E. C. M. Crooks, E. N. Dancer and D. Hilhorst, On long-time dynamics for competition-diffusion systems with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions,, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal., 30 (2007), 1.   Google Scholar

[12]

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, Online companion to [20], Release 1.0.5 of 2012-10-01., Available from: , ().   Google Scholar

[13]

B. Helffer, M. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof and M. P. Owen, Nodal sets for groundstates of Schrödinger operators with zero magnetic field in non-simply connected domains,, Comm. Math. Phys., 202 (1999), 629.  doi: 10.1007/s002200050599.  Google Scholar

[14]

B. Helffer and T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, On minimal partitions: New properties and applications to the disk,, in Spectrum and Dynamics, (2010), 119.   Google Scholar

[15]

B. Helffer and T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Minimal partitions for anisotropic tori,, J. Spectr. Theory, (2013).   Google Scholar

[16]

B. Helffer and T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof, On a magnetic characterization of spectral minimal partitions,, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, (2013).  doi: 10.4171/JEMS/415.  Google Scholar

[17]

B. Helffer, T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof and S. Terracini, Nodal domains and spectral minimal partitions,, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire, 26 (2009), 101.  doi: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2007.07.004.  Google Scholar

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F. W. J. Olver, D. W. Lozier, R. F. Boisvert and C. W. Clark, NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions,, Cambridge University Press, (2010).   Google Scholar

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K. Pankrashkin and S. Richard, Spectral and scattering theory for the Aharonov-Bohm operators,, Rev. Math. Phys., 23 (2011), 53.  doi: 10.1142/S0129055X11004205.  Google Scholar

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