Hearing the Sides: Recovering a Planar Rectangle from Eigenvalues

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Autori principali: Sultanow, Eldar, Hatziiliou, Andreas
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author Sultanow, Eldar
Hatziiliou, Andreas
author_facet Sultanow, Eldar
Hatziiliou, Andreas
contents We present a direct, index-free method to recover the side lengths of a planar rectangle the spectrum of its Dirichelet Laplacian, assuming only access to a finite subset of eigenvalues. No modal indices $(m,n)$ are available, and the list may begin at an arbitrary unknown offset; in particular, the lowest eigenvalues may be missing, so classical formulas based on $λ_{1,0}$ and $λ_{0,1}$ cannot be used. Our reconstruction procedure extracts geometric information solely from the asymptotic density and oscillatory structure of the ordered spectrum. The area $ab$ is obtained from the high-frequency Weyl slope, while the fundamental lengths $2a$ and $2b$ appear as dominant periodic--orbit contributions in the Fourier transform of the spectral fluctuations. This separation of smooth and oscillatory components yields a robust, offset-agnostic recovery of both side lengths. The result is a fully index-free algorithm that reconstructs the geometry of a rectangular planar domain even when the spectrum is incomplete and all modal information is lost.
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spellingShingle Hearing the Sides: Recovering a Planar Rectangle from Eigenvalues
Sultanow, Eldar
Hatziiliou, Andreas
Spectral Theory
35P05, 35P20, 35R30, 58J50, 81Q20
G.1.8; G.1.2; I.1.2
We present a direct, index-free method to recover the side lengths of a planar rectangle the spectrum of its Dirichelet Laplacian, assuming only access to a finite subset of eigenvalues. No modal indices $(m,n)$ are available, and the list may begin at an arbitrary unknown offset; in particular, the lowest eigenvalues may be missing, so classical formulas based on $λ_{1,0}$ and $λ_{0,1}$ cannot be used. Our reconstruction procedure extracts geometric information solely from the asymptotic density and oscillatory structure of the ordered spectrum. The area $ab$ is obtained from the high-frequency Weyl slope, while the fundamental lengths $2a$ and $2b$ appear as dominant periodic--orbit contributions in the Fourier transform of the spectral fluctuations. This separation of smooth and oscillatory components yields a robust, offset-agnostic recovery of both side lengths. The result is a fully index-free algorithm that reconstructs the geometry of a rectangular planar domain even when the spectrum is incomplete and all modal information is lost.
title Hearing the Sides: Recovering a Planar Rectangle from Eigenvalues
topic Spectral Theory
35P05, 35P20, 35R30, 58J50, 81Q20
G.1.8; G.1.2; I.1.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23047