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Inverse spectral problem for analytic plane domains I: Balian-Bloch trace formula

Spectral Theory 2015-06-26 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We give a rigorous version of the classical Balian-Bloch trace formula, a semiclassical expansion around a periodic reflecting ray of the (regularized) resolvent of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded smooth plane domain. It is equivalent to the Poisson relation (or wave trace formula) between spectrum and closed geodesics. We view it primarily as a computational device for explicitly calculating wave trace invariants. Its effectiveness will be illustrated in subsquent articles in the series in which concrete inverse spectral results are proved.

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@article{arxiv.math/0111077,
  title  = {Inverse spectral problem for analytic plane domains I: Balian-Bloch trace formula},
  author = {Steve Zelditch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0111077},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

First in a series on the inverse spectral problem for analytic plane domains. 53 pages, 1 figure. Added some references

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