The Isoperimetric Problem for the Curl Operator

2023/07/18 by Sebastián Montiel, Montiel, S. · 1 citation
Mathematics · #53C21 (Primary) 49K20 (Secondary) #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.09556

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Abstract

In the last decades, many mathematicians have studied the curl operator in compact three-manifolds , mainly the structure of its spectrum and some isoperimetric problems associated with it. In this paper, we will see that all the compact three-manifolds (both closed and and with non-empty boundary) have always optimal lower bounds for the absolute value of their non-null eigenvalues of curl. We will also show that these bounds are always attained and compute the optimal domains and the multiplicities of their associated eigenvalues. So, we have solved the isoperimetric problem associated to the curl operator, and, by the way, we have solved and old Cantarella, de Turck, Gluck and Teytel conjecture in the negative.

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