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Isospectrality and heat content

Spectral Theory 2017-05-17 v2

Abstract

We present examples of isospectral operators that do not have the same heat content. Several of these examples are planar polygons that are isospectral for the Laplace operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions. These include examples with infinitely many components. Other planar examples have mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. We also consider Schr\"{o}dinger operators acting in L2[0,1]L^2[0,1] with Dirichlet boundary conditions, and show that an abundance of isospectral deformations do not preserve the heat content.

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@article{arxiv.1304.4030,
  title  = {Isospectrality and heat content},
  author = {M. van den Berg and E. B. Dryden and T. Kappeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4030},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages

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