Restrictions of Laplacian eigenfunctions to edges in the Sierpinski gasket (Q2324621): Difference between revisions

This paper is devoted to harmonic functions and Laplacian eigenfunctions for the Sierpinski gasket. The main attention is given to the the local behavior of these special functions restricted to edges. Notions of the Sierpinski gasket (SG), of the Laplacian on SG, and of harmonic functions are described. Also, the attention is given to eigenfunctions. The local behavior of the restrictions of harmonic functions to edges and restrictions of Laplacian eigenfunctions to edges are investigated. A short survey on notions and problems related with the main problems of this article, is given. One can note the abstract of the authors: ``In this paper, we study the restrictions of both the harmonic functions and the eigenfunctions of the symmetric Laplacian to edges of pre-gaskets contained in the Sierpinski gasket. For a harmonic function, its restriction to any edge is either monotone or having a single extremum. For an eigenfunction, it may have several local extrema along edges. We prove general criteria, involving the values of any given function at the endpoints and midpoint of any edge, to determine which case it should be, as well as the asymptotic behavior of the restriction near the endpoints. Moreover, for eigenfunctions, we use spectral decimation to calculate the exact numbers of the local extrema along edges. This confirms, in a more general situation, a conjecture in [\textit{K. Dalrymple} et al., J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 5, No. 2--3, 203--284 (1999; Zbl 0937.31010)] on the behavior of the restrictions to edges of the basis Dirichlet eigenfunctions, suggested by the numerical data.''