“…By [24,Theorem 4.4.2], the set Λ * (Γ) of all eigenvalues of a quasicircle Γ ⊂ C coincides with the set Λ * γ , where γ is a welding homeomorphism of Γ. Therefore, Theorem 3.1 is closely related to various results involving these constants obtained by Kühnau ([15], [16], [17]), Schiffer ([29]) and Krushkal ([6], [7], [8,Sect. 2]); see also the survey article by Krushkal [9, p. 528] and the references given there.…”