Inverse problem for a general bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) with piecewise smooth mixed boundary conditions
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Inverse problem for a general bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) with piecewise smooth mixed boundary conditions
zbMATH Open document ID: 0968.35131
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003663621045
published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics
publication date: 2001-09-18T00:00:00Z
review text: The author gives an asymptotic expansion formula for the trace of the heat kernel \(\Theta(t)= \sum^\infty_{\nu=1} \exp(-t\mu_\nu)\) as \(t\to 0^+\), where \(\mu_\nu\) denote the eigenvalues of the Helmholtz equation. The set of boundary conditions under consideration is fairly general including Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin boundary conditions which can be simultaneously prescribed at different parts of the boundary. The coefficients of the expansion are expressed in terms of geometric quantities of the domain such as volume of the domain, surface area, mean and Gaussian curvature of the boundary. The result is applied to derive asymptotic expansions for certain thermodynamic quantities of an ideal gas for \(T\to\infty\), where \(T\) denotes the temperature of the gas. It is thus shown that geometric properties of the container have an influence on (quantum-)thermodynamic properties of the gas. The title and the abstract of the paper are slightly misleading, since the inverse aspect of the problem, i.e. determination of geometric properties from spectral information, is not addressed. Moreover, from the technical point of view, the paper is not entirely self-contained but relies in several points on results by the author [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 112, 455-470 (1985; Zbl 0617.35101)].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35R30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35J05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35P20
zbMATH DE Number: 1529854
zbMATH Keywords: heat kernel
zbMATH Keywords: asymptotic expansion
zbMATH Keywords: trace function
zbMATH Keywords: eigenvalues
zbMATH Keywords: Helmholtz equation
author: Elsayed M. E. Zayed
reviewed by: Wolfgang Ring
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