Thesis
French
ID: <
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37633>
Abstract
In spectral geometry, we are interested in the links between the spectrum of a Riemannian manifold and its geometry. We are looking for geometric upper and lower bounds for the eigenvalues. These bounds are geometric, for they involve geometric quantities such as area and perimeter. Isospectrality is also a subject of interest in spectral geometry: What are thenon isometric Riemannian manifolds that share the same spectrum? In the last few years, the Steklov problem, introduced in the beginning of the 20th century in fluid mechanics, raised the interest of many mathematicians. In this memoir, we present a bank of Steklov-isospectral Riemannian manifolds. We also give a proof of an upper bound for the first Steklov eigenvalue for a bounded domain of the plane without any connectedness assumption.