arXiv · 1812.09649
Robin Spectral Rigidity of the Ellipse
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate $C^1$ isospectral deformations of the ellipse with Robin boundary conditions, allowing both the Robin function and domain to deform simultaneously. We prove that if the deformations preserve the reflectional symmetries of the ellipse, then the first variation of both the domain and Robin function must vanish. Reparameterizing allows us to show that such smooth deformations must be flat at $\epsilon = 0$. In particular, there exist no such analytic isospectral deformations. The key ingredients are a version of Hadamard's variational formula for variable Robin boundary conditions and an oscillatory integral representation of the wave trace variation which uses action angle coordinates for the billiard map. For the latter, we in fact construct an explicit parametrix for the wave propagator in the interior, microlocally near orbits of rotation number $1/j$.
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Amir Vig. 2018-12-23. Robin Spectral Rigidity of the Ellipse. https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09649
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