Perturbations of embedded eigenvalues for the planar bilaplacian (Q610762)

The paper is devoted to the study of the persistence of embedded eigenvalues for the planar bilaplacian \(\Delta^2\) with a smooth, radially symmetric and compactly supported potential \(\theta\) and it is concluded that the set of potentials for which an embedded eigenvalue persists is locally an infinite-dimensional manifold with infinite codimension. In more detail, defining \(L:= \Delta^2 + \theta\) on \(L^2(\mathbb R^2)\), where \(\Delta^2\) is the bilaplace operator densely defined on \(L^2(\mathbb R^2)\) with domain \(H^4(\mathbb R^2)\), and considering \(\theta\in C_0^\infty(B_{r_0}(0);\, \mathbb R)\) radially symmetric, and assuming that \(L\) has an eigenvalue \(\lambda_0>0\) of multiplicity \(1\), and that \(r_1>r_0>0\) is such that \(u_*(r_1)\neq 0\) (where \(u_*\) denotes the eigenfunction associated with the embedded eigenvalue \(\lambda_0\)), then, the main result of the paper guarantees that there exists \(\delta>0\) and a neighbourhood \textit{O} of \(0\) in \(R= L^2([0,r_1], H^{1/2}(S^1),r\, dr)\) such that the set \[ R_{\text{emb}} := \{\rho\in {O};\;L + \rho \text{ has an embedded eigenvalue in } (\lambda_0 - \delta,\lambda_0 + \delta)\} \] is a smooth manifold in \(R\) of infinite dimension and codimension.