Abstract
AbstractWe develop the theory of torsional rigidity—a quantity routinely considered for Dirichlet Laplacians on bounded planar domains—for Laplacians on metric graphs with at least one Dirichlet vertex. Using a variational characterization that goes back to Pólya, we develop surgical principles that, in turn, allow us to prove isoperimetric-type inequalities: we can hence compare the torsional rigidity of general metric graphs with that of intervals of the same total length. In the spirit of the Kohler-Jobin inequality, we also derive sharp bounds on the ground-state energy of a quantum graph in terms of its torsional rigidity: this is particularly attractive since computing the torsional rigidity reduces to inverting a matrix whose size is the number of the graph’s vertices and is, thus, much easier than computing eigenvalues.
Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Analysis
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