Effective operators for changing sign Robin Laplacian in thin two- and three-dimensional curved waveguides (Q6043434)

The authors study the Laplace operator in some planar strips and three-dimensional curved tubes, subject to certain Robin boundary conditions. When the diameters of the cross sections tend to zero, the authors derive nontrivial effective Schrödinger operators on the reference curve by means of norm resolvent convergences. One novelty is the changing sign in the Robin parameter, for which no renormalization is necessary. The other novelty is that the torsion in the spatial case plays no role to the effective operators.