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Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on an equilateral triangle

Milan Práger (1998)

Applications of Mathematics

A boundary value problem for the Laplace equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on an equilateral triangle is transformed to a problem of the same type on a rectangle. This enables us to use, e.g., the cyclic reduction method for computing the numerical solution of the problem. By the same transformation, explicit formulae for all eigenvalues and all eigenfunctions of the corresponding operator are obtained.

Eliciting harmonics on strings

Steven J. Cox, Antoine Henrot (2008)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

One may produce the qth harmonic of a string of length π by applying the 'correct touch' at the node π / q during a simultaneous pluck or bow. This notion was made precise by a model of Bamberger, Rauch and Taylor. Their 'touch' is a damper of magnitude b concentrated at π / q . The 'correct touch' is that b for which the modes, that do not vanish at π / q , are maximally damped. We here examine the associated spectral problem. We find the spectrum to be periodic and determined by a polynomial of degree q - 1 ....

Expansions and eigenfrequencies for damped wave equations

Michael Hitrik (2001)

Journées équations aux dérivées partielles

We study eigenfrequencies and propagator expansions for damped wave equations on compact manifolds. In the strongly damped case, the propagator is shown to admit an expansion in terms of the finitely many eigenmodes near the real axis, with an error exponentially decaying in time. In the presence of an elliptic closed geodesic not meeting the support of the damping coefficient, we show that there exists a sequence of eigenfrequencies converging rapidly to the real axis. In the case of Zoll manifolds,...

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