Planar waveguide with "twisted" boundary conditions: Discrete spectrum

We consider a planar waveguide with combined Dirichlet and Neumann conditions imposed in a "twisted" way. We study the discrete spectrum and describe it dependence on the configuration of the boundary conditions. In particular, we show that in certain cases the model can have discrete eigenvalues emerging from the threshold of the essential spectrum. We give a criterium for their existence and construct them as convergent holomorphic series. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3670875