Starting from the Brock's construction of Continuous Steiner Symmetrization of sets, the problem of modifying continuously a given domain up to obtain a ball, preserving its measure and with decreasing first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator, is considered. For a large class of cases it is shown this is possible, while the general question remains still open.

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G. Buttazzo. “On the Continuity of the Continuous Steiner Symmetrization.” Journal of Convex Analysis 30 (2023), No. 2, 615–626.