Principal spectral rigidity implies subprincipal spectral rigidity (bibtex)
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 La,b:=eabeb on the unit ball BR3, 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 La,b uniquely determine the pair (a,b) 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. [show abstract] [hide 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 La,b:=eabeb on the unit ball BR3, 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 La,b uniquely determine the pair (a,b) and establish spectral rigidity results under suitable assumptions. [arXiv]
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@unpublished{subprincipal-rigidity,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. }
}
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