A clamped plate with a uniform weight may change sign

It is known that the Dirichlet bilaplace boundary value problem, which is used as a model for a clamped plate, is not sign preserving on general domains. It is also known that the corresponding first eigenfunction may change sign. In this note we will show that even a constant right hand side may result in a sign-changing solution.

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