Strict monotonicity and unique continuation for the third-order spectrum of biharmonic operator (Q1938240)

Summary: We study the spectrum for the biharmonic operator involving the Laplacian and the gradient of the Laplacian with weight, which we call third-order spectrum. We show that the strict monotonicity of the eigenvalues of the operator \(\Delta^2 u + 2\beta \cdot \nabla(\Delta u) + |\beta|^2 \Delta u\), where \(\beta \in \mathbb R^N\), holds if some unique continuation property is satisfied by the corresponding eigenfunctions.