Shape perturbation of Grushin eigenvalues (Q2238531)

This article discusses a spectral problem for the Grushin Laplacian coupled with a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded open subset of \(\mathbb{R}^N\). The authors prove that the symmetric functions of the eigenvalues depend real analytically upon domain perturbations and obtain a Hadamard-type formula for their shape differential. A Rellich-Nagy type theorem which describes the bifurcation phenomenon of multiple eigenvalues is obtained in the case of perturbations depending on a single scalar parameter. In particular the authors characterize the critical shapes under isovolumetric and isoperimetric perturbations in terms of overdetermined problems.