Asymptotic first eigenvalue estimates for the biharmonic operator on a rectangle

DOI10.1006/JDEQ.1996.3235MaRDI QIDQ1355841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark P. Owen

Publication date 17 November 1997

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9803011

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotics of the first eigenvalue ground state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for higher-order elliptic equations (35J40) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15)

Abstract: We find an asymptotic expression for the first eigenvalue of the biharmonic operator on a long thin rectangle. This is done by finding lower and upper bounds which become increasingly accurate with increasing length. The lower bound is found by algebraic manipulation of the operator, and the upper bound is found by minimising the quadratic form for the operator over a test space consisting of separable functions. These bounds can be used to show that the negative part of the groundstate is small.

Review text

Consider the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem for the biharmonic operator \(\Delta^2\) in the rectangle \(R_h=[0,h]\times[0,1]\): \(\Delta^2f=\mu f\), \(f=\partial f/\partial n=0\) on \(\partial R_h\). The author proves the following asymptotics of the first eigenvalue \(\mu_1(h)\) as \(h\to\infty\): \(\mu_1(h)=c^4+2dc^2\pi^2h^{-2}+O(h^{-3})\), where \(c\) and \(d\) are absolute constants. In addition, it is proved that \(|f^-_1|/|f_1|=O(h^{-1/2})\), where \(f^-_1\) is the negative part of the ground state \(f_1\) and \(|.|\) stands for the \(L^2\)-norm.

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