Sharp Convergence Rate of Eigenvalues in a Domain with a Shrinking Tube

Abstract

In this paper we consider a class of singularly perturbed domains, obtained by attaching a cylindrical tube to a fixed bounded region and letting its section shrink to zero. We use an Almgren-type monotonicity formula to evaluate the sharp convergence rate of perturbed simple eigenvalues, via Courant-Fischer Min-Max characterization and blow-up analysis for scaled eigenfunctions.