On the nondegeneracy of the critical points of the Robin function in symmetric domains (Q699226)

Consider a smooth bounded domain \(\Omega\) of \({\mathbb R}^N\), \(N\geq 2\), which is symmetric with respect to the origin. The Robin function \(R(x) : \Omega \to {\mathbb R}\) is defined by \(R(x) = H(x,x)\) where \(H(x,y)\) is the regular part of the Green function of the operator \(-\Delta\) in \(H^1_0(\Omega)\). The author proves that the Hessian matrix of \(R\) computed at zero is diagonal and strictly negative definite when \(\Omega\) has some particular geometry.