Spectrum of the Kerzman-Stein operator for the ellipse (Q2464694)

The author provides an answer to the following problem posed by \textit{N. Kerzman} [Singular integrals in complex analysis. Harmonic analysis in Euclidean spaces, Part 2, Williamstown/Massachusetts 1978, Proc. Symp. Pure Math., Vol. 35, 3--41 (1979; Zbl 0432.42015)]: Relate the spectrum of the Kerzman-Stein operator to the geometry of the domain. More precisely, the author shows that the Kerzman-Stein operator for an ellipse has eigenvalues \(\pm i\lambda_l\) where each \(\pm i\lambda_l\) has multiplicity \(2\), and computes the leading coefficient in the asymptotic expansion of the eigenvalues when the ellipse has small eccentricity.