We construct a counterexample to the "hot spots" conjecture; there exists a bounded connected domain (with two holes) such that the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian in that domain with boundary conditions is simple and such that the corresponding eigenfunction attains its strict at an interior point of that domain.
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Burdzy et al. (1999) studied this question.
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