Weighted Eigenvalue Problems for Fourth-Order Operators in Degenerating Annuli

Authors Alexis Michelat, Tristan Rivière

Publication date 7 June 2023

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Inequalities involving eigenvalues and eigenvectors (15A42) Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: We obtain a nigh optimal estimate for the first eigenvalue of two natural weighted problems associated to the bilaplacian (and of a continuous family of fourth-order elliptic operators in dimension

2

) in degenerating annuli (that are central objects in bubble tree analysis) in all dimension. The estimate depends only on the conformal class of the annulus. We also show that in dimension

2

and dimension

4

, the first eigenfunction (of the first problem) is never radial provided that the conformal class of the annulus is large enough. The other result is a weighted Poincar'e-type inequality in annuli for those fourth-order operators. Applications to Morse theory are given.

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