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This paper deals with the very interesting problem about the influence of piecewise smooth boundary conditions on the distribution of the eigenvalues of the negative Laplacian inR 3. The asymptotic expansion of the trace of the wave operator\(\widehat\mu (t) = \sum\limits_{\upsilon = 1}^\infty {\exp \left( { - it\mu _\upsilon ^{1/2} } \right)} \) for small ⋎t⋎ and\(i = \sqrt { - 1} \), where\(\{ \mu _\nu \} _{\nu = 1}^\infty \) are the eigenvalues of the negative Laplacian\( - \nabla ^2 = - \sum\limits_{k = 1}^3 {\left( {\frac{\partial }{{\partial x^k }}} \right)} ^2 \) in the (x 1,x 2,x 3), is studied for an annular vibrating membrane Ω inR 3 together with its smooth inner boundary surfaceS 1 and its smooth outer boundary surfaceS 2. In the present paper, a finite number of Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin boundary conditions on the piecewise smooth componentsS * i(i=1, …,m) ofS 1 and on the piecewise smooth componentsS * i(i=m+1, …,n) ofS 2 such that\(S_1 = \bigcup\limits_{i = 1}^m {S_i^* } \) and\(S_2 = \bigcup\limits_{i = m + 1}^n {S_i^* } \) are considered. The basic problem is to extract information on the geometry of the annular vibrating membrane ω from complete knowledge of its eigenvalues by analyzing the asymptotic expansions of the spectral function\(\widehat\mu (t)\) for small ⋎t⋎.
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E.M.E. Zayed received his BSC from Tanta University (Egypt), in 1973, and received his first MSC from Al-Azhar University (Egypt) in 1977, and his second MSC from Dundee University (U.K) in 1978. He received his Ph.D. at Dundee Unviersity (U.K) in 1981, under the direction of Professor B.D. Sleeman. From 1977–1981 he was a postgraduate student at the University of Dundee Since 1989 he has been a full Professor of Mathematics at Zagazig University (Egypt). His Research interests focus on inverse problems in differential equations. He published more than 94 papers in this field in high level standard mathematical Journals around the world. Since 1993 he has been a reviewer for the Mathematical Reviews (USA) and has reviewed more than 40 papers. Also, he does mathematical consulting
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Zayed, E.M.E. An inverse problem of the three-dimensional wave equation for a general annular vibrating membrane with piecewise smooth boundary conditions. JAMC 12, 81–105 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02936184
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