Hardy inequalities in strips on ruled surfaces (Q2491589)

It is well known that the Dirichlet Laplacian in an infinite planar strip of uniform width always possesses eigenvalues below its essential spectrum whenever the strip is curved and asymptotically straight. From the mathematical point of view, the strips represent a class of noncompact noncomplete manifolds for which the spectral results of this type are nontrivial. Recently, it was demonstrated that the discrete spectrum of the Laplacian in any asymptotically straight planar strip is empty provided the curvature of the boundary curves does not change sign and the Dirichlet condition on the locally shorter boundary is replaced by the Neumann one, as well it was obtained the same conclusion for the purely Dirichlet Laplacian in a mildly curved strip by introducing a local magnetic field perpendicular to the strip. The author in this paper shows that the same types of repulsive interaction can be created if the ambient space of the strip is a negatively curved manifold instead of the Euclidean plane. He considers the Dirichlet Laplacian in infinite two-dimensional strips defined as uniform tubular neighbourhoods of curves on ruled surfaces. He shows that the negative Gauss curvature of the ambient surface gives rise to a Hardy inequality and he uses this to prove certain stability of spectrum in the case of asymptotically straight strips about mildly perturbed geodesics.