An Isoperimetric Inequality for the Second Eigenvalue of the Laplacian with Robin Boundary Conditions
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We prove that the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions is minimised amongst all bounded Lipschitz domains of fixed volume by the domain consisting of the disjoint union of two balls of equal volume.
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