Enforced stability of a simple eigenvalue in the continuous spectrum of a waveguide (Q482559)

Let \(\Omega\) be a domain in the space \(\mathbb R^d\) which has Lipschitz boundary \(\partial\Omega\) and coincides with the cylinder \(Q=\{x=(y,z): y \in \omega, z\in\mathbb R\}\) inside the half-space \(\mathbb R^d_+ = \{x = (y, z) : y = (x_1, \dots , x_{d-1}) \in \mathbb R^{d-1}, z = x_d > 0\}\); here, \(\omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^{d-1}\) with boundary \(\partial\omega\) and compact closure. The author considers the spectral problem \[ -\Delta u(x)=\lambda u(x), \;x\in \Omega\subset \mathbb R^n, \quad u(x)|_{\partial \Omega}=0 \] and the auxiliary spectral problem \[ -\Delta U(y)=\Lambda U(y), \quad U(y)|_{\partial \omega}=0 \] with the eigenvalues \(\Lambda_1\leq \Lambda_{2}\leq \cdots\). Let \(\lambda \in (\Lambda_{i},\Lambda_{i+1})\) be a simple eigenvalue of spectral problem and \(\lambda_\varepsilon\) be an eigenvalue of the perturbed problem \[ -\Delta u(x)+\varepsilon \sum\limits_{i=0}^N\tau_iL_iu(x)=\lambda_\varepsilon u(x), \quad u(x)|_{\partial \Omega}=0, \] where \(\varepsilon>0\), \(\{\tau_i\}\) are some parameters and \(L_i\) are symmetric differential operators of second order with compactly supported coefficients. The author finds conditions on the perturbation term \(\sum_{i=0}^N\tau_iL_i\) under which there exists the corresponding eigenvalue \(\lambda_\varepsilon\) of the perturbed problem which converges to \(\lambda\) as \(\varepsilon\to 0\). The proof is based on the asymptotic analysis of the augmented scattering matrix.