# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2020, 19(9): 4363-4371. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020198

## Monotonicity with respect to $p$ of the First Nontrivial Eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian with Homogeneous Neumann Boundary Conditions

 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Craiova, 200585 Craiova, Romania 2 Research group of the project PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-2233, University of Bucharest, 010014 Bucharest, Romania 3 Dep. de Matemática, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pab 1 (1428), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Received  September 2019 Revised  March 2020 Published  June 2020

Fund Project: MM was partially supported by CNCS-UEFISCDI Grant No. PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-2233 and JDR by CONICET grant PIP GI No 112201-50100036CO (Argentina) and by UBACyT grant 20020160100155BA (Argentina)

We deal with monotonicity with respect to $p$ of the first positive eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplace operator on $\Omega$ subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. For any fixed integer $D>1$ we show that there exists $M\in[2 e^{-1}, 2]$ such that for any open, bounded, convex domain $\Omega\subset{{\mathbb R}}^D$ with smooth boundary for which the diameter of $\Omega$ is less than or equal to $M$, the first positive eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplace operator on $\Omega$ subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition is an increasing function of $p$ on $(1, \infty)$. Moreover, for each real number $s>M$ there exists a sequence of open, bounded, convex domains $\{\Omega_n\}_n\subset{{\mathbb R}}^D$ with smooth boundaries for which the sequence of the diameters of $\Omega_n$ converges to $s$, as $n\rightarrow\infty$, and for each $n$ large enough the first positive eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplace operator on $\Omega_n$ subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition is not a monotone function of $p$ on $(1, \infty)$.

Citation: Mihai Mihăilescu, Julio D. Rossi. Monotonicity with respect to $p$ of the First Nontrivial Eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian with Homogeneous Neumann Boundary Conditions. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2020, 19 (9) : 4363-4371. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020198
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