Evgeny Lakshtanov, Boris Vainberg
The paper concerns the isotropic interior transmission eigenvalue (ITE) problem. This problem is not elliptic, but we show that, using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, it can be reduced to an elliptic one. This leads to the discreteness of the spectrum as well as the existence of at most a finite number of eigenvalues inside any closed sector of complex plane that does not contain the real positive semi-axis. If the refraction index $n(x)$ is real, we get a result on the existence of infinitely many positive ITEs and lower bounds of the Weyl type on its counting function. All the results are obtained under the assumption that the index of refraction $n(x) - 1$ does not vanish at the boundary of the obstacle or it vanishes identically, but its normal derivative does not vanish at the boundary. We consider the classical transmission problem as well as the case when the inhomogeneous medium contains an obstacle. Some results on the discreteness and localization of the spectrum are obtained for complex valued $n(x)$.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6785
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