by Maarten V. de Hoop, Joonas Ilmavirta and Vitaly Katsnelson
Abstract:
We study the inverse spectral problem of jointly recovering a radially symmetric Riemannian metric and an additional coefficient from the Dirichlet spectrum of a perturbed Laplace-Beltrami operator on a bounded domain. Specifically, we consider the elliptic operator on the unit ball , where the scalar functions and are spherically symmetric and satisfy certain geometric conditions. While the function influences the principal symbol of , the function appears in its first-order terms. We investigate the extent to which the Dirichlet eigenvalues of uniquely determine the pair and establish spectral rigidity results under suitable assumptions.
Reference:
Principal spectral rigidity implies subprincipal spectral rigidity (Maarten V. de Hoop, Joonas Ilmavirta and Vitaly Katsnelson), 2025.
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We study the inverse spectral problem of jointly recovering a radially symmetric Riemannian metric and an additional coefficient from the Dirichlet spectrum of a perturbed Laplace-Beltrami operator on a bounded domain. Specifically, we consider the elliptic operator on the unit ball , where the scalar functions and are spherically symmetric and satisfy certain geometric conditions. While the function influences the principal symbol of , the function appears in its first-order terms. We investigate the extent to which the Dirichlet eigenvalues of uniquely determine the pair and establish spectral rigidity results under suitable assumptions.
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Bibtex Entry:
@unpublished{subprincipal-rigidity,
author = {Maarten V. de Hoop and Joonas Ilmavirta and Vitaly Katsnelson},
title = {{Principal spectral rigidity implies subprincipal spectral rigidity}},
month = mar,
year = 2025,
arxiv = {2503.19866},
url = {http://users.jyu.fi/~jojapeil/pub/subprincipal-rigidity.pdf},
abstract = {We study the inverse spectral problem of jointly recovering a radially symmetric Riemannian metric and an additional coefficient from the Dirichlet spectrum of a perturbed Laplace-Beltrami operator on a bounded domain. Specifically, we consider the elliptic operator $L_{a,b} := e^{a-b} \nabla \cdot e^b \nabla$ on the unit ball $B \subset \mathbb{R}^3$, where the scalar functions $a = a(|x|)$ and $b = b(|x|)$ are spherically symmetric and satisfy certain geometric conditions. While the function $a$ influences the principal symbol of $L$, the function $b$ appears in its first-order terms. We investigate the extent to which the Dirichlet eigenvalues of $L_{a,b}$ uniquely determine the pair $(a, b)$ and establish spectral rigidity results under suitable assumptions. }
}