On the Neumann Laplacian in nonuniformly collapsing strips

Abstract

Consider the Neumann Laplacian in the region below the graph of [Formula: see text], for a positive smooth function [Formula: see text] with both [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] bounded. As [Formula: see text] such region collapses to [Formula: see text] and an effective operator is found, which has Robin boundary conditions at [Formula: see text]. Then, we recover (under suitable assumptions in the case of unbounded [Formula: see text]) such effective operators through uniformly collapsing regions; in such approach, we have (roughly) got norm resolvent convergence for [Formula: see text] diverging less than exponentially.