Nonrelativistic Limit of Generalized MIT Bag Models and Spectral Inequalities

Abstract

For a family of self-adjoint Dirac operators $-ic(\alpha \cdot \nabla )+\frac{c^2}{2}$ subject to generalized MIT bag boundary conditions on domains in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ it is shown that the nonrelativistic limit in the norm resolvent sense is the Dirichlet Laplacian. This allows to transfer spectral geometry results for Dirichlet Laplacians to Dirac operators for large $c$.

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