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We investigate the discrete spectrum of the Hamiltonian describing a quantum particle living in the two-dimensional curved strip. We impose the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on opposite sides of the strip. The existence of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jaroslav Dittrich , Jan Kriz

In this paper, we consider the essential spectrum of submanifolds in Euclidean spaces under various geometric hypotheses. Our results involve extrinsic conditions such as finite total mean curvature, the convergence of the gradient of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Yuxin Dong , Hezi Lin , Wei Zhang

We discuss upper and lower bounds for the size of gaps in the length spectrum of negatively curved manifolds. For manifolds with algebraic generators for the fundamental group, we establish the existence of exponential lower bounds for the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Dmitry Dolgopyat , Dmitry Jakobson

A coupling method and an analytic one allow us to prove new lower bounds for the spectral gap of reversible diffusions on compact manifolds. Those bounds are based on the a notion of curvature of the diffusion, like the coarse Ricci…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Laurent Veysseire

Spatial cruciform quantum waveguides (the Dirichlet problem for Laplace operator) are constructed such that the total multiplicity of the discrete spectrum exceeds any preassigned number.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-20 F. L. Bakharev , S. G. Matveenko , S. A. Nazarov

We prove a pair of sharp reverse isoperimetric inequalities for domains in nonpositively curved surfaces: (1) metric disks centered at the vertex of a Euclidean cone of angle at least $2\pi$ have minimal area among all nonpositively curved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Mikhail G. Katz , Stephane Sabourau

In this paper, we extend the result of arXiv:2409.13662 by showing that the set on which every pseudotangent is obtained on a Lipschitz curve can be any compact, uniformly disconnected set in Euclidean space which admits any Lipschitz…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Eve Shaw

Mathematical settings in which heterogeneous structures affect electron transport through a tube-shaped quantum waveguide are studied, highlighting the interaction between heterogeneities and geometric parameters like curvature and torsion.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Carolin Kreisbeck , Luísa Mascarenhas

The point symmetry group is studied for the generalized Webster-type equation describing non-linear acoustic waves in lossy channels with variable cross sections. It is shown that, for certain types of cross section profiles, the admitted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir F. Kovalev , Oleg V. Rudenko

We consider the negative Dirichlet Laplacian on an infinite waveguide embedded in $\RR^2$, and finite segments thereof. The waveguide is a perturbation of a periodic strip in terms of a sequence of independent identically distributed random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Denis Borisov , Ivan Veselic'

Bound states of the Hamiltonian describing a quantum particle living on three dimensional straight strip of width $d$ are investigated. We impose the Neumann boundary condition on the two concentric windows of the radii $a$ and $ b$ located…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hatem Najar , Oleg Olendski

An extension of the lower-bound lemma of Boggio is given for the weak forms of certain elliptic operators, which have partially Dirichlet and partially Neumann boundary conditions, and are in general nonlinear. Its consequences and those of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Evans M. Harrell

We study boundary effects in a linear wave equation with Dirichlet type conditions in a weakly curved pipe. The coordinates in our pipe are prescribed by a given small curvature with finite range, while the pipe's cross section being…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 Shin-itiro Goto

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Claudio Cacciapuoti

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian with uniform magnetic field on a curved strip in two dimensions. We give a sufficient condition ensuring the existence of the discrete spectrum in the strong magnetic field limit.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Enguerrand Bon-Lavigne , Loïc Le Treust , Nicolas Raymond , Julien Royer

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^3$ be a broken sheared waveguide, i.e., it is built by translating a cross-section in a constant direction along a broken line in $\mathbb R^3$. We prove that the discrete spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Diana C. S. Bello , Alessandra A. Verri

We study topological properties of random closed curves on an orientable surface $S$ of negative Euler characteristic. Letting $\gamma_{n}$ denote the conjugacy class of the $n^{th}$ step of a simple random walk on the Cayley graph driven…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Tarik Aougab , Jonah Gaster

The structure of the spectrum of the three-dimensional Dirichlet Laplacian in the 3D polyhedral layer of fixed width is studied. It appears that the essential spectrum is defined by the smallest dihedral angle that forms the boundary of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Fedor Bakharev , Sergey Matveenko

We consider a family of open sets $M_\epsilon$ which shrinks with respect to an appropriate parameter $\epsilon$ to a graph. Under the additional assumption that the vertex neighbourhoods are small we show that the appropriately shifted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Olaf Post

A thin tube is an $n$-dimensional space which is very thin in $n-1$ directions, compared to the remaining direction, for example the $\epsilon$-neighborhood of a curve or an embedded graph in $\R^n$ for small $\epsilon$. The Laplacian on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-20 Daniel Grieser