Can one count the shape of a drum?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Gnutzmann, Sven ^a,c,d   Karageorge, Panos D ^b   Smilansky, Uzy ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODIES OF REVOLUTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ORBITS; PHASE SEQUENCE INDICATORS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

LAPLACE BELTRAMI OPERATOR; NODAL COUNTS; PERIODIC ORBITS; REVOLUTION SURFACE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33748665803     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.090201     Document Type: Article

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