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A Counterexample for the Principal Eigenvalue of An Elliptic Operator with Large Advection

Analysis of PDEs 2023-11-14 v1

Abstract

There are numerous studies focusing on the convergence of the principal eigenvalue λ(s)\lambda(s) as s+s\to+\infty corresponding to the elliptic eigenvalue problem \begin{align*} -\Delta\varphi(x)-2s\mathbf{v}\cdot\nabla\varphi(x)+c(x)\varphi(x)=\lambda(s)\varphi(x),\quad x\in \Omega, \end{align*} where Ω\Omega is a bounded domain and the advection term v\mathbf{v} under some certain restrictions. In this paper, we construct an infinitely oscillating gradient advection term v=m(x)C1(Ω)\mathbf{v}=\nabla m(x)\in C^1(\Omega) such that the principal eigenvalue λ(s)\lambda(s) does not converge as s+s\to+\infty. As far as we know, this is the first result that guarantee the non-convergence of the principal eigenvalue.

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@article{arxiv.2311.06475,
  title  = {A Counterexample for the Principal Eigenvalue of An Elliptic Operator with Large Advection},
  author = {Xueli Bai and Xin Xu and Kexin Zhang and Maolin Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.06475},
  year   = {2023}
}