Asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a thin domain under the mixed boundary condition (Q2822157)

The paper deals with the eigenvalue problem of the Laplacian with a mixed boundary condition on a thin domain NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases} -\Delta \Phi=\lambda \Phi\text{ in }\Omega(\varepsilon),\\ \Phi=0\text{ on }\Gamma(\varepsilon),\\ \frac{\partial \Phi}{\partial \nu}=0\text{ on }\Gamma,\end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\Omega(\varepsilon)=\{x\in \Omega,\,\,d(x,\Gamma)<\varepsilon\}\), \(\Gamma(\varepsilon)=\{x\in\Omega,\,\,d(x,\Gamma)=\varepsilon\}\), \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) (\(n\geq 2\)) is a bounded domain with the smooth boundary \(\Gamma=\partial \Omega\), \(\varepsilon>0\) is a small positive number, and \(\nu(x)\) is the outward unit normal vector on \(\Gamma\). By using a variational approach, the authors investigate the asymptotic behavior of the \(k\)-th eigenvalue \(\lambda_k(\varepsilon)\) as \(\varepsilon\to 0\), and they establish the characteristic geometric dependency. An application to a certain bifurcation problem arising in population dynamics is also presented.