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Let \(M\) be a finite graph smoothly imbedded into \(\mathbb{R}^2\), with a finite set of vertices \(\{v_\ell\}\) and a finite set of edges \(\{M_j\}\). The ``fattened graph'' domain \(M^\varepsilon\) is the union of narrow strips \(M^\varepsilon_j\) of width of order \(\varepsilon\) surrounding edges \(M_j\) and of small neighborhoods \(\bigcup^\varepsilon_\ell\) of radius of order \(\varepsilon^\alpha\) of vertices \(v_\ell\), where \(0< \alpha\leq 1\). Here \(\varepsilon\) is a small parameter. The authors deal separately with three distinct cases: \({1\over 2}< \alpha\leq 1\), \(0<\alpha<{1\over 2}\) and \(\alpha={1\over 2}\cdot\ln\) all these cases they present a spectral problem in the space \(L^2\) on the graph or in some extension of it, such that the eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian \(-\Delta_\varepsilon\) on the thin domain \(M^\varepsilon\) converge, when \(\varepsilon\) tends to zero, to the corresponding eigenvalues of the problem on the graph. The proofs are just outlined. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1015.00019].