Convergence of eigenvalues and Green functions under surgery type degeneration of Riemannian manifolds (Q5961563)

In the paper under review the authors study the asymptotics for the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions and the corresponding Green function for sequences of Riemannian metrics that converge to a smooth compact limit in a controlled manner. A model for this type of phenomenon is the degeneration of the Bergman metric on a sequence of compact Riemann surfaces tending to a reducible limit.