Graph-like asymptotics for the Dirichlet Laplacian in connected tubular domains
arXiv:1102.3767
Abstract
We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in a waveguide of uniform width and infinite length which is ideally divided into three parts: a "vertex region", compactly supported and with non zero curvature, and two "edge regions" which are semi-infinite straight strips. We make the waveguide collapse onto a graph by squeezing the edge regions to half-lines and the vertex region to a point. In a setting in which the ratio between the width of the waveguide and the longitudinal extension of the vertex region goes to zero, we prove the convergence of the operator to a selfadjoint realization of the Laplacian on a two edged graph. In the limit operator, the boundary conditions in the vertex depend on the spectral properties of an effective one dimensional Hamiltonian associated to the vertex region.
Major revision. Reviewed introduction. Changes in Th. 1, Th. 2, and Th. 3. Updated references. 23 pages
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