On the eigenvalues of the biharmonic operator with Neumann boundary conditions on a thin set

Abstract

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^2$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$, and let $\omega_h$ be the set of points in $\Omega$ whose distance from the boundary is smaller than $h$. We prove that the eigenvalues of the biharmonic operator on $\omega_h$ with Neumann boundary conditions converge to the eigenvalues of a limiting problem in the form of system of differential equations on $\partial\Omega$.