Geometric Approximation of Point Interactions in Three-Dimensional Domains

Abstract

In this paper, we study a three-dimensional second-order elliptic operator with a point interaction in an arbitrary domain. The operator is supposed to be self-adjoint. We cut out a small cavity around the center of the interaction and consider an operator in such perforated domain with the Robin condition on the boundary of the cavity. Our main result states that once the coefficient in this Robin condition is appropriately chosen, the operator in the perforated domain converges to that with the point interaction in the norm resolvent sense. We also succeed in establishing order-sharp estimates for the convergence rate.