Ozawa, Shin Electrostatic capacity and eigenvalues of the Laplacian. (English) Zbl 0531.35061 J. Fac. Sci., Univ. Tokyo, Sect. I A 30, 53-62 (1983). Consider a bounded domain \(\Omega\) in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) with \(C^{\infty}\) boundary \(\gamma\) and \(\omega\) a fixed point in \(\Omega\). Let D be a bounded open neighbourhood of the origin with \(C^ 2\) boundary. Assume that \(R^ 3\backslash \bar D\) is connected. Put \(\epsilon D=\{x\in {\mathbb{R}}^ 3\), \(\epsilon^{-1}(x-\omega)\in D\}\) and \(\Omega_{\epsilon}=\Omega \backslash \overline{\epsilon.D}\). Let \(m_ j(\epsilon)\) (resp. \(m_ j)\) be the j-th eigenvalue of the Laplacian in \(\Omega_{\epsilon}\) (resp. \(\Omega)\) under the Dirichlet condition on \(\partial \Omega_{\epsilon}\) (resp. \(\gamma)\). The author proves the following nice result: For fixed j suppose \(m_ j\) is simple. Then \[ m_ j(\epsilon)=m_ j-4\pi \epsilon.cap(D)\phi_ j(\omega)^ 2+0(\epsilon^{2-s}) \] as \(\epsilon\to 0\), s being any fixed positive constant. Here \(\phi_ j\) is the normalized eigenfunction associated with \(m_ j\) and cap(D) is the electrostatic capacity of D. Reviewer: D.Robert Cited in 18 Documents MSC: 35P20 Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs 35J05 Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation 31B15 Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions Keywords:electrostatic capacity; Dirichlet condition PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{S. Ozawa}, J. Fac. Sci., Univ. Tokyo, Sect. I A 30, 53--62 (1983; Zbl 0531.35061)