Weyl asymptotics of the transmission eigenvalues for a constant index of refraction

Ha Pham; Plamen Stefanov

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Weyl asymptotics of the transmission eigenvalues for a constant index of refraction

Ha Pham^1, and
Plamen Stefanov^2,

1.
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
2.
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 150 N University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Received: October 2013

Revised: April 2014

Published: August 2014

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We prove Weyl-type asymptotic formulas for the real and the complex internal transmission eigenvalues when the domain is a ball and the index of refraction is constant.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35P20, 47A75; Secondary: 35J40, 35P25.

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