Strong coupling asymptotics for -interactions supported by curves with cusps

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Abstract: Let GammasubsetmathbbR2 be a simple closed curve which is smooth except at the origin, at which it has a power cusp and coincides with the curve |x2|=x1p for some p>1. We study the eigenvalues of the Schr"odinger operator Halpha with the attractive delta-potential of strength alpha>0 supported by Gamma, which is defined by its quadratic form [ H^1(mathbb{R}^2)

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abla u|^2,mathrm{d}x-alphaint_Gamma u^2, mathrm{d}s, ] where mathrmds stands for the one-dimensional Hausdorff measure on Gamma. It is shown that if ninmathbbN is fixed and alpha is large, then the well-defined nth eigenvalue En(Halpha) of Halpha behaves as [ E_n(H_alpha)=-alpha^2 + 2^{frac{2}{p+2}} mathcal{E}_n ,alpha^{frac{6}{p+2}} + mathcal{O}(alpha^{frac{6}{p+2}-eta}), ] where the constants mathcalEn>0 are the eigenvalues of an explicitly given one-dimensional Schr"odinger operator determined by the cusp, and eta>0. Both main and secondary terms in this asymptotic expansion are different from what was observed previously for the cases when~Gamma is smooth or piecewise smooth with non-zero angles.


The authors consider a simple closed curve \(\Gamma \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}\) which is smooth except at the origin at which it coincides with the curve \(\left\vert x_{2}\right\vert =x_{1}^{p}\), for some \(p>1\), and the Schrödinger operator \(H_{\alpha }\) defined for \(u\in H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\) as \(H_{\alpha}(u)=\iint\limits_{\mathbb{R}^{2}}\left\vert \nabla u\right\vert^{2}dx-\alpha \int_{\Gamma }u^{2}ds\). The main result of the paper proves that for every \(n\), the eigenvalue \(E_{n}(H_{\alpha })\) is equal to \(-\alpha^{2}+2^{\frac{2}{p+2}}E_{n}(A)\alpha ^{\frac{6}{p+2}}+\mathcal{O}(\alpha ^{\frac{6}{p+2}-\eta })\), as \(\alpha \) tends to \(+\infty \). Here \(E_{n}(A)\) is the \(n\)-th eigenvalue of the auxiliary one-dimensional operator \(A\) acting in \(L^{2}(0,+\infty )\) as \((Af)(x)=-f^{\prime \prime }(x)+x^{p}f(x)\) and \(\eta =\min \{\frac{p-1}{2(p+2)},\frac{2(p-1)}{(p+1)(p+2)}\}\). For the proof, the authors use the min-max principle for the eigenvalues of self-adjoint operators and they reduce the problem to one in a moving half-plane. They indeed introduce \(\Gamma _{\varepsilon }=\{(x_{1},x_{2}):x_{1}\in (0,\varepsilon )\), \(\left\vert x_{2}\right\vert =x_{1}^{p}\}\) and the operator \(H_{\alpha ,\varepsilon }(u)=\iint\limits_{\mathbb{R} ^{2}}\left\vert \nabla u\right\vert ^{2}dx-\alpha \int_{\Gamma _{\varepsilon}}u^{2}ds\). They evaluate the Rayleigh ratio of \(H_{\alpha ,\varepsilon }\) in terms of that of a self-adjoint operator \(F_{h,b}\) and that of \(H_{\alpha}\) in terms of that of \(F_{h,\varepsilon h^{\frac{1}{1-p}}}\) which leads to the introduction of one-dimensional effective operator.



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