Estimates for eigenvalues of a system of of elliptic equations and of the biharmonic operator
Daguang Chen, Qing-Ming Cheng, Qiaoling Wang, Changyu Xia · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2010
Let $\om $ be a bounded domain in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $\Bbb R^n$. We study eigenvalues of an eigenvalue problem of a system of elliptic equations: $$ \{\aligned &Δ{\mathbf u}+ α{\rm grad}(\text{div}{\mathbf u})=-σ{\mathbf u}, \ \text{in $Ω$}, &{\mathbf u}|_{\partial Ω}={\mathbf 0}. \aligned . $$ Estimates for eigenvalues of the above eigenvalue problem are obtained. Furthermore, we obtain an upper bound on the $(k+1)^{\text{th}}$ eigenvalue $σ_{k+1}$. We also obtain sharp lower bound for the first eigenvalue of two kinds of eigenvalue problems of the biharmonic operator on compact manifolds with boundary and positive Ricci curvature.