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Spectral study of the Laplace-Beltrami operator arising in the problem of acoustic wave scattering by a quarter-plane

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Assier, RC 
Poon, C 

Abstract

The Laplace-Beltrami operator on a sphere with a cut arises when considering the problem of wave scattering by a quarter-plane. Recent methods developed for sound-soft (Dirichlet) and sound-hard (Neumann) quarter-planes rely on an a priori knowledge of the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. In this paper we consider this spectral problem for more general boundary conditions, including Dirichlet, Neumann, real and complex impedance, where the value of the impedance varies like α/=r, r being the distance from the vertex of the quarter-plane and α being constant, and any combination of these. We analyse the corresponding eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, both theoretically and numerically. We show in particular that when the operator stops being self-adjoint, its eigenvalues are complex and are contained within a sector of the complex plane, for which we provide analytical bounds. Moreover, for impedance of small enough modulus |α|, the complex eigenvalues approach the real eigenvalues of the Neumann case.

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4902 Mathematical Physics, 49 Mathematical Sciences

Journal Title

Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

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0033-5614
1464-3855

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Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)
Sponsorship
R.C. Assier would like to acknowledge the support by UK EPSRC (EP/N013719/1).