Shape optimization of a weighted two-phase Dirichlet eigenvalue

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Abstract: Let m be a bounded function and alpha a nonnegative parameter. This article is concerned with the first eigenvalue lambdaalpha(m) of the drifted Laplacian type operator mathcalLm given by mathcalLm(u)=operatornamedivleft((1+alpham)ablauight)mu on a smooth bounded domain, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Assuming uniform pointwise and integral bounds on m, we investigate the issue of minimizing lambdaalpha(m) with respect to m. Such a problem is related to the so-called "two phase extremal eigenvalue problem" and arises naturally, for instance in population dynamics where it is related to the survival ability of a species in a domain. We prove that unless the domain is a ball, this problem has no "regular" solution. We then provide a careful analysis in the case of a ball by: (1) characterizing the solution among all radially symmetric resources distributions, with the help of a new method involving a homogenized version of the problem; (2) proving in a more general setting, a stability result for the centered distribution of resources with the help of a monotonicity principle for second order shape derivatives which significantly simplifies the analysis.



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