Dirichlet spectrum of the Fichera layer

DOI10.1007/S00020-018-2486-YzbMATH Open1401.35032arXiv1711.08439OpenAlexW2768323700WikidataQ129283424 ScholiaQ129283424MaRDI QIDQ1990899FDOQ1990899

Monique Dauge, Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos, Yvon Lafranche

Publication date: 26 October 2018

Published in: Integral Equations and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the spectrum of the three-dimensional Dirichlet Laplacian in a prototypal infinite polyhedral layer, that is formed by three perpendicular quarter-plane walls of constant width joining each other. Alternatively, this domain can be viewed as an octant from which another "parallel" octant is removed. It contains six edges (three convex and three non-convex) and two corners (one convex and one non-convex). It is a canonical example of non-smooth conical layer. We name it after Fichera because near its non-convex corner, it coincides with the famous Fichera cube that illustrates the interaction between edge and corner singularities. This domain could also be called an octant layer. We show that the essential spectrum of the Laplacian on such a domain is a half-line and we characterize its minimum as the first eigenvalue of the two-dimensional Laplacian on a broken guide. By a Born-Oppenheimer type strategy, we also prove that its discrete spectrum is finite and that a lower bound is given by the ground state of a special Sturm-Liouville operator. By finite element computations taking singularities into account, we exhibit exactly one eigenvalue under the essential spectrum threshold leaving a relative gap of 3%. We extend these results to a variant of the Fichera layer with rounded edges (for which we find a very small relative gap of 0.5%), and to a three-dimensional cross where the three walls are full thickened planes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08439

zbMATH Keywords

essential spectrumquantum layersconical layersFichera cornerLaplace operator on infinite layer domainsoctant layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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