Positivity and almost positivity of biharmonic Green's functions under Dirichlet boundary conditions

DOI10.1007/S00205-009-0230-0zbMATH Open1200.35090arXiv0705.3301OpenAlexW1964945261MaRDI QIDQ982269FDOQ982269

Authors: Hans-Christoph Grunau, Frédéric Robert 

Publication date: 6 July 2010

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In general, for higher order elliptic equations and boundary value problems like the biharmonic equation and the linear clamped plate boundary value problem neither a maximum principle nor a comparison principle or -- equivalently -- a positivity preserving property is available. The problem is rather involved since the clamped boundary conditions prevent the boundary value problem {from} being reasonably written as a system of second order boundary value problems. It is shown that, on the other hand, for bounded smooth domains $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^n$, the negative part of the corresponding Green's function is "small" when compared with its singular positive part, provided $nge3$. Moreover, the biharmonic Green's function in balls $Bsubsetmathbb{R}^n$ under Dirichlet (i.e. clamped) boundary conditions is known explicitly and is positive. It has been known for some time that positivity is preserved under small regular perturbations of the domain, if $n=2$. In the present paper, such a stability result is proved for $nge3$. Keywords: Biharmonic Green's functions, positivity, almost positivity, blow-up procedure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3301

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zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionbiharmonic equationDirichlet conditionslinear clamped plate boundary problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-order elliptic equations (35J30) Boundary value problems for higher-order elliptic equations (35J40) Plates (74K20) Green's functions for elliptic equations (35J08)

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