Optimal partitions for Robin Laplacian eigenvalues

Abstract

We prove the existence of an optimal partition for the multiphase shape optimization problem which consists in minimizing the sum of the first Robin Laplacian eigenvalue of $k$ mutually disjoint {\it open} sets which have a ${\mathcal{H}}^{d-1}$-countably rectifiable boundary and are contained into a given box $D$ in $R^d$