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arxiv: 1605.09027 · v1 · pith:SJYZL4CFnew · submitted 2016-05-29 · 🧮 math-ph · math.MP

Laplace-Beltrami equation on hypersurfaces and Gamma-convergence

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keywords boundaryequationgammalimitdifferentialhypersurfacelaplace-beltramilayer
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We investigate a mixed boundary value problem for the stationary heat transfer equation in a thin layer with a mid hypersurface $\mathcal{C}$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the boundary. The main object is to trace what happens in $\Gamma$-limit when the thickness of the layer converges to zero. The limit Dirichlet BVP for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on the surface is described explicitly and we show how the Neumann boundary conditions in the initial BVP transform in the $\Gamma$-limit. For this we apply the variational formulation and the calculus of G\"unter's tangential differential operators on a hypersurface and layers, which allow global representation of basic differential operators and of corresponding boundary value problems in terms of the standard Euclidean coordinates of the ambient space $\mathbb{R}^n$.

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