2003/09/15 by Michael Hitrik, Hitrik, Michael
Engineering · Mathematics · #35P10 #35P20 #58J37 #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Numerical methods in inverse problems #Spectral Theory (math.SP) #Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations #math.AP #math.SP #msc:35P10 #msc:35P20 #msc:58J37
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0309250
arxiv created 2003/09/15 · openalex publication_date 2003/09/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study eigenfrequencies and propagator expansions for damped wave equations on compact manifolds. Under the assumption of geometric control, the propagator is shown to admit an expansion in terms of finitely many eigenmodes near the real axis, with an error term exponentially decaying in time. In the presence of a nondegenerate 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, we show that the propagator can be expanded in terms of clusters of the eigenfrequencies in the entire spectral band.