MATHEMATICA BOHEMICA, Vol. 140, No. 2, pp. 215-222, 2015

Estimates of the principal eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian and the $p$-biharmonic operator

Jiří Benedikt

Jiří Benedikt, Department of Mathematics and New Technologies for the Information Society, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 22, 306 14 Plzeň, Czech Republic, e-mail: benedikt@kma.zcu.cz

Abstract: We survey recent results concerning estimates of the principal eigenvalue of the Dirichlet $p$-Laplacian and the Navier $p$-biharmonic operator on a ball of radius $R$ in $\mathbb R^N$ and its asymptotics for $p$ approaching $1$ and $\infty$. Let $p$ tend to $\infty$. There is a critical radius $R_C$ of the ball such that the principal eigenvalue goes to $\infty$ for $0<R\leq R_C$ and to $0$ for $R>R_C$. The critical radius is $R_C=1$ for any $N\in\mathbb N$ for the $p$-Laplacian and $R_C=\sqrt{2N}$ in the case of the $p$-biharmonic operator. When $p$ approaches $1$, the principal eigenvalue of the Dirichlet $p$-Laplacian is $NR^{-1}\*(1-(p-1)\log R(p-1))+o(p-1)$ while the asymptotics for the principal eigenvalue of the Navier $p$-biharmonic operator reads $2N/R^2+O(-(p-1)\log(p-1))$.

Keywords: eigenvalue problem for $p$-Laplacian; eigenvalue problem for $p$-biharmonic operator; estimates of principal eigenvalue; asymptotic analysis

Classification (MSC 2010): 35J66, 35J92, 35P15, 35P30


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