Conformal Geometry and the Composite Membrane Problem

DOI10.2478/AGMS-2012-0002zbMATH Open1258.35209arXiv1208.5515OpenAlexW2964269574MaRDI QIDQ4910656FDOQ4910656

Authors: Sagun Chanillo 

Publication date: 19 March 2013

Published in: Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider smooth bounded surfaces with a smooth boundary and a prescribed background metric g_0. We now consider all metrics g conformal to g_0 which have a prescribed volume M. We now minimize the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator of g over the metrics conformal to g_0 and having the prescribed volume. We show that this problem is equivalent to the study of the Composite Membrane Problem, a free boundary problem studied earlier by the author and his collaborators in all dimensions. Thus complete answers, existence of the limit metric, regularity of the minimizing eigenfunction and various qualitative properties of the metric are easily obtained from the solution of the Composite Membrane problem. The problem of minimizing eigenvalues over conformal classes has a higher dimensional analog for the critical GJMS operator and leads to new classes and questions for higher order unstable free boundary problems. In particular in dimension 4 we are lead to free boundary problems involving the Paneitz operator and in odd dimensions to fractional free boundary problems of unstable type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5515

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zbMATH Keywords

free boundary problemsconformal geometryGJMS operatorscomposite membrane problemeigenvalue minimization in conformal classespaneitz operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

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