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 | | An analogous conclusion holds for a pair of Dirichlet strips, of generally different widths, with a window of length $\,2a\,$ in the common boundary. |
 | | If $\,d_1=d_2\,$, the operator decomposes into an orthogonal sum with respect to the $\,y$--parity; the nontrivial part is unitarily equivalent to the Laplacian on $\,L^2(\Sigma_+)\,$, where $\,\Sigma_+:= \R\times [0,d]\,$, with the Neumann condition at the segment $\,[-a,a]\,$ of the $\,x$--axis and Dirichlet at the remaining part of the boundary; we denote it by $\,H(d;2a)\,$. |
 | | However, we may restrict ourselves to the symmetric case only because inserting an additional Neumann boundary into the window we get a lower bound to $\,H(d_1,d_2;2a)\,$; hence it is sufficient to treat the spectrum of $\,H\equiv H(d;2a)\,$. |
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