Low-frequency spectral asymptotics for the Poincaré operator on ellipsoids

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Let abla\boldsymbol{ abla} be the relevant geometric setting on the unit cosphere bundle U⋆S2U^\star S^2, let kωk_\omega be the Hamiltonian of the Kelvin equation, and let n(x,ξ)n(x,\boldsymbol{\xi}) denote the number of values of ω\omega such that kω(x,ξ)=0k_\omega(x,\boldsymbol{\xi})=0. For an ellipsoid EE, let μj,n\mu_{j,n} be the eigenvalues of the Poincaré operator with polynomial eigenvectors of degree nn, and let HEH_E be the Hamiltonian of the Kelvin equation. For 0<a,b<ω−0<a,b<\omega_-, the conjecture is

Low-frequency spectral asymptotics.

#{μj,n∈[a,b]}∼2n+38π2∫U⋆S2∩{(x,ξ)∣kω(x,ξ)=0, ω∈[a,b]}n dL\#\{\mu_{j,n}\in[a,b]\}\sim \frac{2n+3}{8\pi^2}\int_{U^\star S^2\cap\{(x,\boldsymbol{\xi})\mid k_\omega(x,\boldsymbol{\xi})=0,\ \omega\in[a,b]\}} n\,dL

when n→+∞n\to+\infty, where LL is the Liouville measure on U⋆S2U^\star S^2. This would give the asymptotic distribution of the low-frequency eigenvalues in [0,ω−[[0,\omega_-[ and complement the Weyl asymptotic formula known in the interval [ω−,ω+][\omega_-,\omega_+].

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Yves Colin de Verdière and Jérémie Vidal, “On gravito-inertial surface waves”, arXiv:2402.12992 (2026).

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