Spectral properties of the Neumann-Poincaré operator on rotationally symmetric domains in two dimensions

Abstract

This paper concerns the spectral properties of the Neumann-Poincaré operator on $m$-fold rotationally symmetric planar domains. An $m$-fold rotationally symmetric simply connected domain $D$ is realized as the $m$th-root transform of a certain domain, say $\Omega$. We prove that the domain of definition of the Neumann-Poincaré operator on $D$ is decomposed into invariant subspaces and the spectrum on one of them is the exact copy of the spectrum on $\Omega$. It implies in particular that the spectrum on the transformed domain $D$ contains the spectrum on the original domain $\Omega$ counting multiplicities.

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