Distribution symmetry of toral eigenfunctions (Q2157367): Difference between revisions

The authors analyse known conjectures on the behavior of the value distribution of eigenfunctions, and produce partial advances on such conjectures. Namely, given a non constant real eigenfunction \(\psi\) of the flat two dimensional torus, they deduce that \[ \mbox{vol}(\{x\in\mathbb{T}^2:\psi(x)>0\})=\mbox{vol}(\{x\in\mathbb{T}^2:\psi(x)<0\}), \] \[ \max_{x\in\mathbb{T}^2}\psi(x)=-\min_{x\in\mathbb{T}^2}\psi(x), \] and that the distribution function \(d\lambda(s)=d\mbox{vol}(\{x\in\mathbb{T}^2:\psi(x)>s\})\) is symmetric around \(s=0\). Additionally, as a counterexample for higher dimensional tori, based on a computer assisted argument (requiring about a billion computations), it is announced that the function \[ g(x,y,z) = \sin(x+y)-\cos(y-z)-\sin(x+z) \] satisfies \(-\Delta\psi=2\psi\) in \(\mathbb{T}^3\) and it is negative for at least \(52\%\) of the volume.