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Steklov problem on differential forms

Spectral Theory 2017-05-26 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we study spectral properties of Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on differential forms obtained by a slight modification of the definition due to Belishev and Sharafutdinov. The resulting operator Λ\Lambda is shown to be self-adjoint on the subspace of coclosed forms and to have purely discrete spectrum there.We investigate properies of eigenvalues of Λ\Lambda and prove a Hersch-Payne-Schiffer type inequality relating products of those eigenvalues to eigenvalues of Hodge Laplacian on the boundary. Moreover, non-trivial eigenvalues of Λ\Lambda are always at least as large as eigenvalues of Dirichlet-to-Neumann map defined by Raulot and Savo. Finally, we remark that a particular case of pp-forms on the boundary of 2p+22p+2-dimensional manifold shares a lot of important properties with the classical Steklov eigenvalue problem on surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1705.08951,
  title  = {Steklov problem on differential forms},
  author = {Mikhail Karpukhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.08951},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages

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