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We establish the existence of optimal solutions and provide structural characterizations: minimizers are bang-bang functions and may have disconnected support, while maximizers are not necessarily bang-bang. On circular domains, the minimization problem admits infinitely many minimizers generated by rotational symmetry, while the maximization problem has infinitely many distinct maximizers that are not symmetry-induced. We also show that an eigenvalue is generally neither convex nor concave with respect to the density function, limiting the use of classical convex optimization tools. To address these challenges, we analyze the objective functional and introduce a Fr\u00e9chet differentiable surrogate that enables the derivation of optimality conditions. 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