Plane Domains which are Spectrally Determined

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 447-475

  Watanabe, Kohtaro ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigenvalues of the Laplacian; Planar drum problem; Trace of the heat kernel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010667117     PISSN: 0232704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006641021540     Document Type: Article

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