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Generic simplicity of ellipses

Spectral Theory 2024-07-22 v2

Abstract

We prove that the Laplace spectrum of the generic ellipse is simple, both with Neumann and Dirichlet boundary condition. We rely on the known multiplicities in the spectrum of the disk (Bourget's hypothesis) and on a refined version of our method of asymptotic separation of variables. In v1, the statement of prop. 2.1 is correct but the proof is not.

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@article{arxiv.2403.07377,
  title  = {Generic simplicity of ellipses},
  author = {Luc Hillairet and Chris M. Judge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.07377},
  year   = {2024}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:16:49.087Z