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Does the Steklov spectrum detect boundary singularities of orbifolds?

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The Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator and the Steklov spectrum of a compact Riemannian orbifold with boundary were introduced by Arias-Marco, Dryden, Gordon, Hassannezhad, Ray and Stanhope. They showed that the Steklov spectrum of a two-dimensional orbifold determines the number of singular points on its boundary. In dimension greater than two the question is open.

Problem. Does the Steklov spectrum of a compact Riemannian orbifold of dimension at least three detect the presence of singularities on its boundary?

Source: Posed by Colbois, Girouard, Gordon and Sher (2024), Open Question 8.17, after Arias-Marco, Dryden, Gordon, Hassannezhad, Ray and Stanhope (2019).

The statement is adapted from doi.org/10.1007/s13163-023-00480-3, whose text is available under CC BY 4.0.

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Primary
SP — Spectral Theory
Secondary
DG
Keywords
Colbois–Girouard–Gordon–Sher Steklov problems, inverse spectral problems, orbifolds, Steklov eigenvalues

References

@article{ariasmarco2019,
  author = {Arias-Marco, Teresa and Dryden, Emily B. and Gordon, Carolyn S. and Hassannezhad, Asma and Ray, Allie and Stanhope, Elizabeth},
  title = {Spectral geometry of the {S}teklov problem on orbifolds},
  journal = {International Mathematics Research Notices},
  number = {1},
  pages = {90--139},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.1093/imrn/rnx117},
  eprint = {1609.05142},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

@article{colbois2024,
  author = {Colbois, Bruno and Girouard, Alexandre and Gordon, Carolyn and Sher, David},
  title = {Some recent developments on the {S}teklov eigenvalue problem},
  journal = {Revista Matem{\'a}tica Complutense},
  volume = {37},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1--161},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1007/s13163-023-00480-3},
  eprint = {2212.12528},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  note = {Open Question 8.17}
}

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