Sharp bounds on the failure of the hot spots conjecture

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Auteurs principaux: Pont, Jaume de Dios, Hsu, Alexander W., Taylor, Mitchell A.
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author Pont, Jaume de Dios
Hsu, Alexander W.
Taylor, Mitchell A.
author_facet Pont, Jaume de Dios
Hsu, Alexander W.
Taylor, Mitchell A.
contents The hot spots ratio of a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ measures the degree of failure of Rauch's hot spots conjecture on that domain. We identify the largest possible value of this ratio over all connected Lipschitz domains $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, for any dimension $d$. As $d\to \infty$, we show that this maximal ratio converges to $\sqrt{e}$, which asymptotically matches the previous best known upper bound by Mariano, Panzo and Wang. For $d\ge 2$, we show that sets extremizing the hot spots ratio do not exist, and extremizing sequences must converge to a ball at a quantitative rate. We then give a sharp bound on the measure of the set for which the first Neumann eigenfunction exceeds its maximal boundary value. From this we deduce that the hot spots conjecture is asymptotically true "in measure'' as $d\to \infty$.
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spellingShingle Sharp bounds on the failure of the hot spots conjecture
Pont, Jaume de Dios
Hsu, Alexander W.
Taylor, Mitchell A.
Spectral Theory
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
The hot spots ratio of a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ measures the degree of failure of Rauch's hot spots conjecture on that domain. We identify the largest possible value of this ratio over all connected Lipschitz domains $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, for any dimension $d$. As $d\to \infty$, we show that this maximal ratio converges to $\sqrt{e}$, which asymptotically matches the previous best known upper bound by Mariano, Panzo and Wang. For $d\ge 2$, we show that sets extremizing the hot spots ratio do not exist, and extremizing sequences must converge to a ball at a quantitative rate. We then give a sharp bound on the measure of the set for which the first Neumann eigenfunction exceeds its maximal boundary value. From this we deduce that the hot spots conjecture is asymptotically true "in measure'' as $d\to \infty$.
title Sharp bounds on the failure of the hot spots conjecture
topic Spectral Theory
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16321