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An isoperimetric inequality for eigenvalues of the bi-harmonic operator

Analysis of PDEs 2011-01-28 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

} In this article, we put forward a Neumann eigenvalue problem for the bi-harmonic operator Δ2\Delta^2 on a bounded smooth domain \Om\Om in the Euclidean nn-space Rn{\bf R}^n (n2n\ge2) and then prove that the corresponding first non-zero eigenvalue Υ1(\Om)\Upsilon_1(\Om) admits the isoperimetric inequality of Szeg\"o-Weinberger type: Υ1(\Om)Υ1(B\Om)\Upsilon_1(\Om)\le \Upsilon_1(B_{\Om}), where B\OmB_{\Om} is a ball in Rn{\bf R}^n with the same volume of \Om\Om. The isoperimetric inequality of Szeg\"o-Weinberger type for the first nonzero Neumann eigenvalue of the even-multi-Laplacian operators Δ2m\Delta^{2m} (m1m\ge1) on \Om\Om is also exploited.

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@article{arxiv.1101.5224,
  title  = {An isoperimetric inequality for eigenvalues of the bi-harmonic operator},
  author = {Q. Ding and G. Feng and Y. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5224},
  year   = {2011}
}

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