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arxiv: math/9803030 · v2 · submitted 1998-03-10 · 🧮 math.PR · math.AP

A counterexample to the "hot spots" conjecture

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We construct a counterexample to the ``hot spots'' conjecture; there exists a bounded connected planar domain (with two holes) such that the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian in that domain with Neumann boundary conditions is simple and such that the corresponding eigenfunction attains its strict maximum at an interior point of that domain.

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