On $T$-coercive interior transmission eigenvalue problems on compact manifolds with smooth boundary

Abstract

In this paper, we consider an interior transmission eigenvalue problem on two compact Riemannian manifolds with common smooth boundary. We suppose that a couple of these manifolds is equipped with locally anisotropic type Riemannian metric tensors, i.e., these two tensors are not equivalent in a neighborhood of common boundary. Here we note that we do not assume that these manifolds are diffeomorphic. In addition, we impose some conditions of the refractive indices in a neighborhood of common boundary. Then we prove that the set of ITEs form infinite discrete set and the existence of ITE-free region. In order to prove our results, we employ so-called the $T$-coercivity method.