Dirichlet eigenvalues of asymptotically flat triangles

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ourmières-Bonafos, Thomas

Affiliations: IRMAR, Université de Rennes 1, CNRS, Campus de Beaulieu, F-35042 Rennes cedex, France. E-mail: tourmieres@bcamath.org

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the study of the eigenpairs of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a family of triangles where two vertices are fixed and the altitude associated with the third vertex goes to zero. We investigate the dependence of the eigenvalues on this altitude. For the first eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, we obtain an asymptotic expansion at any order at the scale cube root of this altitude due to the influence of the Airy operator. Asymptotic expansions of the eigenpairs are provided, exhibiting two distinct scales when the altitude tends to zero. In addition, we generalize our analysis to the case of a shrinking polygon.

Keywords: Dirichlet Laplacian, thin domain asymptotics, Born–Oppenheimer approximation

DOI: 10.3233/ASY-141279

Journal: Asymptotic Analysis, vol. 92, no. 3-4, pp. 279-312, 2015