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It is proved that the measurement of the acoustic pressure on the ear membrane allows one to determine the shape of the ear $ uniquely.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 A. G. Ramm

We discuss a way to exploit the conformal mapping to study the response of a finite metallic element of arbitrary shape to an external electromagnetic field at finite frequencies. This provides a simple way to study different physics issues…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-09 S. T. Chui , Shubo Wang , C. T. Chan

As a discrete analogue of Kac's celebrated question on "hearing the shape of a drum", and towards a practical graph isomorphism test, it is of interest to understand which graphs are determined up to isomorphism by their spectrum (of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Illya Koval , Matthew Kwan

We show that the spectrum of the Schrodinger operator on a finite, metric graph determines uniquely the connectivity matrix and the bond lengths, provided that the lengths are non-commensurate and the connectivity is simple (no parallel…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris Gutkin , Uzy Smilansky

The extent to which the geometry of an object is determined by some associated spectral data is a longstanding problem. We investigate this problem in the context of the Steklov spectrum, focusing on convex polygons. We prove that almost…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Emily B. Dryden , Carolyn Gordon , Javier Moreno , Julie Rowlett , Carlos Villegas-Blas

We introduce a notion of $k$-convexity and explore polygons in the plane that have this property. Polygons which are \mbox{$k$-convex} can be triangulated with fast yet simple algorithms. However, recognizing them in general is a 3SUM-hard…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Oswin Aichholzer , Franz Aurenhammer , Erik D. Demaine , Ferran Hurtado , Pedro Ramos , Jorge Urrutia

If we label the vertices of a triangle with 1, 2 and 4, and the orthocentre with 7, then any of the four numbers 1, 2, 4, 7 is the nim-sum of the other three and is their orthocentre. Regard the triangle as an orthocentric quadrangle.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Richard K. Guy

The main result of this paper is that one cannot hear orientability of a surface with boundary. More precisely, we construct two isospectral flat surfaces with boundary with the same Neumann spectrum, one orientable, the other…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Pierre Bérard , David L. Webb

Se enuncia los principales teoremas empleados en la resoluci'on de tri'angulos oblicu'angulos. Con ellos, se ilustra c'omo resolver los cinco casos de resoluci'on que se presentan, incluyendo algunos caso at'ipicos (cuando se conoce el…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Diego Fernando Ramírez Jiménez

We use a probabilistic interpretation of solid angles to generalize the well-known fact that the inner angles of a triangle sum to 180 degrees. For the 3-dimensional case, we show that the sum of the solid inner vertex angles of a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-23 David V. Feldman , Daniel A. Klain

The inverse problem of finding the refraction coefficient of a shallow ocean from the observation of the extra Cauchy data for the acoustic field at the surface of the ocean is studied. Uniqueness theorem is proved and a reconstruction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 A. G. Ramm

It is proved that the measurement of the acoustic pressure on the ear membrane allows one to determine the shape of the ear channel uniquely.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

The results of an investigation of fundamental banjo acoustics and physics are now readily available. The papers describe measurements and calculations which demonstrate the extent to which the sound of a banjo can be represented by linear…

Popular Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 David Politzer , Jim Woodhouse , Hossein Mansour

In 1969, Vic Klee asked whether a convex body is uniquely determined (up to translation and reflection in the origin) by its inner section function, the function giving for each direction the maximal area of sections of the body by…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-01-19 Richard J. Gardner , Dmitri Ryabogin , Vladyslav Yaskin , Artem Zvavitch

An inverse scattering problem for the 3D acoustic equation in time domain is considered. The unknown spatially distributed speed of sound is the subject of the solution of this problem. A single location of the point source is used. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang

The paper [1] considers a spherical cloak described by three radially varying acoustical quantities. For a given radial mass density in the cloak the question posed is whether the remaining two parameters, tangential density and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 A. N. Norris

John Conway's Circle Theorem is a gem of plane geometry. The six points formed by continuing the sides of a triangle beyond every vertex by the length of its opposite side, are concyclic. The theorem has attracted several proofs. We present…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Eric Braude

We show that one can reconstruct the shape of a room with planar walls from the first-order echoes received by four non-planar microphones placed on a drone with generic position and orientation. Both the cases where the source is located…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Mireille Boutin , Gregor Kemper

An ear in a triangulation $T$ of a convex $n$-gon $P$ is a triangle of $T$ that shares two sides with $P$ itself. Certain enumerational and structural problems become easier when one considers only triangulations with few ears. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Andrei Asinowski , Alon Regev

After a brief review on the applications of twisted spectral triples to physics, we adapt to the twisted case the notion of real part of a spectral triple. In particular, when one twists a usual spectral triple by its grading, we show that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Manuele Filaci , Pierre Martinetti