Fórmulas Variacionais tipo Hadamard para os Autovalores do Eta-laplaciano e Aplicações

Abstract

In this thesis we consider an analytic family of Riemannian structures on a compact smooth manifold M with boundary. We impose the Dirichlet condition to the Eta-Laplacian and proof the existence of analytic curves of its eigenfunctions and eigenvalues. We next derive Hadamard type variation formulas. As a first application of these formulas we obtain that there is a residual subset of the set of metrics where all eigenvalues of the Eta-Laplacian operator are generically simple. We consider a bounded domain 12 in M. Then we show that the subset of diffeomorphisms in 12 is residual provided the eigenvalues of the Eta-laplacian are simple. As another application we obtain variational expressions of the eigenvalues in the case when the metric varies conformally. We conclude our work with analysis of the behaviour of the eigenvalues of Eta-laplacian along the Ricci flow.