On a Steklov-Robin eigenvalue problem (Q6110801)

The authors study a Steklov-Robin eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian in annular domains of the form \(\Omega=\Omega_0\setminus \overline{B_{r}}\), where \(\Omega_0\subset\mathbb{R}^n\), \(n\geq 2\), is an open, bounded, connected set with Lipschitz boundary and \(B_{r}\) is the ball of radius \(r>0\) centered at the origin such that \(\overline{B_{r}}\subset\Omega_0\). The eigenvalue problem is \[ \begin{aligned} &\Delta u=0 \quad \mbox{in}\quad \Omega \\ &\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}=\sigma u\quad\mbox{on}\quad \partial\Omega_0 \\ &\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}+\beta(x) u=0\quad\mbox{on}\quad \partial B_{r}, \end{aligned} \] where \(\beta\in L^{\infty}(\partial B_r) \) is a positive function such that \(\|\beta\|_{L^1(\partial B_r)}=m>0\). By \(\sigma_\beta\) the authors denote the first eigenvalue of such problem. Let \(\sigma_D\) be the first eigenvalue of a similar eigenvalue problem but with the Dirichlet condition on \(\partial B_r\), while \(\mu_1\) be the first non-trivial eigenvalue of the Steklov problem for the Laplacian in \(\Omega\). Denote \[ q_\beta(\Omega) = \inf_{ \substack{\Delta w=0, \, w\neq 0\\ \frac{\partial w}{\partial \nu}=0 \, \textit{on}\,\, \partial \Omega_0}}\frac{ \int_{\partial B_r}\beta(x)w^2\,d\mathcal{H}^{n-1}}{ \int_{\partial \Omega_0}w^2\,d\mathcal{H}^{n-1}}. \] The first main result is the following two estimates: \begin{align*} & \frac{1}{\sigma_{\beta}(\Omega)}\leq\frac{1}{\mu_1(\Omega)}+\frac{P(\Omega_0)}{m},\\ \\ & \frac{1}{\sigma_{\beta}(\Omega)}\leq\frac{1}{\sigma_D(\Omega)}+\frac{1}{ q_\beta(\Omega) }, \end{align*} where \(P(\Omega_0)\) is the area of the boundary of \(\Omega_0\). The second main result describes the asymptotic behaviour of \(\sigma_{\beta}(\Omega)\) with respect to \(m\). Namely, let \(\beta(x)=\beta\) be a positive constant. Let \(u_\beta\) and \(v\) be positive eigenfunctions corresponding to \(\sigma_\beta(\Omega)\) and \(\sigma_D(\Omega)\) respectively. Then \[ \lim_{\beta \to +\infty} \|u_\beta -v\|_{H^1(\Omega)}= 0. \]