Transmission eigenvalue-free regions (Q2018317)

This paper is mainly concerned with finding the complex numbers \(\lambda\), called transmission eigenvalues, such that the problem \[ \begin{cases} (\nabla c_1(x)\nabla+\lambda n_1(x))u_1=0\quad &\text{in }\Omega, \\ (\nabla c_2(x)\nabla+\lambda n_2(x))u_2=0\quad &\text{in }\Omega,\\ u_1=u_2,\;c_1\partial_{\nu}u_1=c_2\partial_{\nu}u_2\quad &\text{on }\Gamma,\end{cases} \] has a non-trivial solution, where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb R^d\), \(d\geq 2\), denotes a bounded, connected domain with a \(C^\infty\) smooth boundary \(\Gamma=\partial\Omega\), \(\nu\) denotes the exterior Euclidean unit normal to \(\Gamma\), and \(c_j\), \(n_j\in C^\infty(\Omega)\), \(j=1,2\), are strictly positive real-valued functions. The author studies the localization of the possible transmission eigenvalues on \(\mathbb C\) as \(|\lambda|\to\infty\) under the condition \[ c_1(x)n_1(x)\neq c_2(x)n_2(x) \text{ for all }x\in\Gamma \] with special conditions imposed on \(c_1(x)\), \(c_2(x)\), \(n_1(x)\), and \(n_2(x)\).