The disk's nonexistence conjecture for Dirichlet-Neumann isospectrality

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A bounded planar domain is equipped with a decomposition of its boundary into Dirichlet and Neumann parts, and Dirichlet-Neumann isospectrality means that swapping these boundary conditions leaves the spectrum unchanged. The disk is the planar domain under consideration. The disk's nonexistence conjecture. A disk does not admit Dirichlet-Neumann isospectrality. This asks whether there are domains with no non-trivial Dirichlet-Neumann isospectral decompositions; the source presents the disk as a natural candidate, but gives no resolution.

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Dmitry Jakobson, Michael Levitin, Nikolai Nadirashvili and Iosif Polterovich, “Spectral problems with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions: isospectrality and beyond”, arXiv:math/0409154 (2004).

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