Asymptotic Expansions of The Traces of the Thermoelastic Operators

Abstract

We obtain the asymptotic expansions of the traces of the thermoelastic operators with the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on a Riemannian manifold, and give an effective method to calculate all the coefficients of the asymptotic expansions. These coefficients provide precise geometric information. In particular, we explicitly calculate the first two coefficients concerning the volumes of the manifold and its boundary. As an application, by combining our results with the isoperimetric inequality we show that an $n$-dimensional geodesic ball is uniquely determined up to isometry by its thermoelastic spectrum among all bounded thermoelastic bodies with boundary.