%0 Journal Article %T Extremal domains of big volume for the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator in a compact manifold %+ Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille (I2M) %A Sicbaldi, Pieralberto %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0294-1449 %J Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré C, Analyse non linéaire %I EMS %V 31 %N 6 %P 1231-1265 %8 2014 %D 2014 %Z Mathematics [math]/Differential Geometry [math.DG] %Z Mathematics [math] %Z Mathematics [math]/Analysis of PDEs [math.AP]Journal articles %X We prove the existence of extremal domains for the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator in some compact Riemannian manifolds, with volume close to the volume of the manifold. If the first (positive) eigenfunction F of the Laplace-Beltrami operator over the manifold is a nonconstant function, these domains are close to the complement of geodesic balls of small radius whose center is close to the point where F attains its maximum. If F is a constant function and the dimension of the manifold is at least 4, these domains are close to the complement of geodesic balls of small radius whose center is close to a nondegenerate critical point of the scalar curvature function. %G English %2 https://hal.science/hal-00480303v2/document %2 https://hal.science/hal-00480303v2/file/paper_sicbaldi_AnnIHP.pdf %L hal-00480303 %U https://hal.science/hal-00480303 %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-AMU %~ EC-MARSEILLE %~ I2M %~ I2M-2014- %~ TDS-MACS