Spectral asymptotics of a strong $δ'$ interaction on a planar loop

Abstract: We consider a generalized Schr\"odinger operator in $L^2(\R^2)$ with an attractive strongly singular interaction of $\delta'$ type characterized by the coupling parameter $\beta>0$ and supported by a $C^4$-smooth closed curve $\Gamma$ of length $L$ without self-intersections. It is shown that in the strong coupling limit, $\beta\to 0_+$, the number of eigenvalues behaves as $\frac{2L}{\pi\beta} + \OO(|\ln\beta|)$, and furthermore, that the asymptotic behaviour of the $j$-th eigenvalue in the same limit is $-\frac{4}{\beta^2} +\mu_j+\OO(\beta|\ln\beta|)$, where $\mu_j$ is the $j$-th eigenvalue of the Schr\"odinger operator on $L^2(0,L)$ with periodic boundary conditions and the potential $-\frac14 \gamma^2$ where $\gamma$ is the signed curvature of $\Gamma$.