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The narrow escape problem consists of deriving the asymptotic expansion of the solution of a drift-diffusion equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition on a small absorbing part of the boundary and the Neumann boundary condition on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-12 Habib Ammari , Kostis Kalimeris , Hyeonbae Kang , Hyundae Lee

A classical pseudodifferential operator $P$ on $R^n$ satisfies the $\mu$-transmission condition relative to a smooth open subset $\Omega $, when the symbol terms have a certain twisted parity on the normal to $\partial\Omega $. As shown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Gerd Grubb

The paper concerns scattering of plane waves by a bounded obstacle with complex valued impedance boundary conditions. We study the spectrum of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator for small wave numbers and long wave asymptotic behavior of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

We show that the interior transmission eigenvalues are discrete by proving that the interior transmission operator has upper triangular compact resolvent, and that the spectrum of these operators share many of the properties of operators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-03 John Sylvester

The problem of characterizing sequences of real numbers that arise as spectra of Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) maps for elliptic operators has attracted considerable attention over the past fifty years. In this article, we address this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Thierry Daudé , Fabricio Macià , Cristóbal Meroño , François Nicoleau

This paper is concerned with a numerical solution to the scattering of a time-harmonic electromagnetic wave by a bounded and impenetrable obstacle in three dimensions. The electromagnetic wave propagation is modeled by a boundary value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Gang Bao , Mingming Zhang , Xue Jiang , Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

We investigate the continuity of boundary operators, such as the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map, with respect to the coefficient matrices of the underlying elliptic equations. We show that for nonsmooth coefficients the correct notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Luca Rondi

In this paper, we investigate the interior transmission eigenvalue problem for an inhomogeneous media with conductive boundary conditions. We prove the discreteness and existence of the transmission eigenvalues. We also investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Oleksandr Bondarenko , Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

The unique determination of electrical conductivity is extensively studied for isotropic conductivity ever since Calderon's suggestion of the EIT (Electrical Impedance Tomography) problem. However, it is known that there are many…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Kiwoon Kwon

We prove a Weyl asymptotics $N(r) = c r^d + {\mathcal O}_{\epsilon}(r^{d - \kappa + \epsilon})$, $\forall\, 0< \epsilon \ll 1$, for the counting function $N(r) = \sharp\{\lambda_j \in {\mathbb C} \setminus \{0\}:\: |\lambda_j| \leq r^2\}$,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Vesselin Petkov , Georgi Vodev

In this paper, we investigate the eigenvalue problem for a non-local dispersal operator defined on a bounded spatial domain with Neumann-type boundary conditions. Unlike the classical Laplacian, the non-local operator lacks compactness,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Maciej Tadej

In this paper, we study eigenvalue of linear fourth order elliptic operators in divergence form with Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded domain in a compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary (possibly empty) and find a general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Shahroud Azami

In Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) one wants to image the conductivity distribution of a body from current and voltage measurements carried out on its boundary. In this paper we consider the underlying mathematical model, the inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Andreas Hauptmann , Matteo Santacesaria , Samuli Siltanen

The paper aims to study the spectral properties of elliptic operators with highly inhomogeneous coefficients and related issues concerning wave propagation in high-contrast media. A unified approach to solving problems in bounded domains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Yuri A. Godin , Leonid Koralov , Boris Vainberg

The transmission eigenvalue problem (TEP) plays a central role in inverse scattering theory. Despite substantial theoretical progress, the numerical solution of direct and inverse TEP in spherically symmetric domains with variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Vladislav V. Kravchenko , L. Estefania Murcia-Lozano , Nikolaos Pallikarakis

Maximization and minimization problems of the principle eigenvalue for divergence form second order elliptic operators with the Dirichlet boundary condition are considered. The principal eigen map of such elliptic operators is introduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Hongwei Lou , Jiongmin Yong

This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, which is of more abstract nature, the notion of quasi boundary triples and associated Weyl functions is developed further in such a way that it can be applied to elliptic boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Jussi Behrndt , Till Micheler

The Dirichlet problem and Dirichlet to Neumann map are analyzed for elliptic equations on a large collection of infinite quantum graphs. For a dense set of continuous functions on the graph boundary, the Dirichlet to Neumann map has values…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Robert Carlson

Let $\Omega$ be an open, simply connected, and bounded region in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, and assume its boundary $\partial\Omega$ is smooth. Consider solving the eigenvalue problem $Lu=\lambda u$ for an elliptic partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Kendall Atkinson , Olaf Hansen