Hearing the Shape of a Triangle

DOI10.1090/NOTI1063MaRDI QIDQ3193056zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Svenja Maronna, D. Grieser

Publication date 14 October 2015

Published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3163

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real and complex geometry (51M99)

Abstract: In 1966 Mark Kac asked the famous question 'Can one hear the shape of a drum?'. While this was later shown to be false in general, it was proved by C. Durso that one can hear the shape of a triangle. After an introduction to the general inverse spectral problem we will give a new proof of this fact. The central point of the argument is to show that area, perimeter and the sum of the reciprocals of the angles determine a triangle uniquely. This is proved using convexity arguments and the partial fraction expansion of $si{n}^{-2}x$.

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