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Surface concentration of transmission eigenfunctions

Analysis of PDEs 2023-04-24 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

The transmission eigenvalue problem is a type of non-elliptic and non-selfadjoint spectral problem that arises in the wave scattering theory when invisibility/transparency occurs. The transmission eigenfunctions are the interior resonant modes inside the scattering medium. We are concerned with the geometric rigidity of the transmission eigenfunctions and show that they concentrate on the boundary surface of the underlying domain in two senses. This substantiates the recent numerical discovery in [10] on such an intriguing spectral phenomenon of the transmission resonance. Our argument is based on generalized Weyl's law and certain novel ergodic properties of the coupled boundary layer-potential operators which are employed to analyze the generalized transmission eigenfunctions.

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@article{arxiv.2109.14361,
  title  = {Surface concentration of transmission eigenfunctions},
  author = {Yat Tin Chow and Youjun Deng and Hongyu Liu and Mahesh Sunkula},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14361},
  year   = {2023}
}

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