On nodal and generalized singular structures of Laplacian eigenfunctions and applications to inverse scattering problems (Q2204936)

The authors deal with geometric structures of Laplacian eigenfunctions and their behaviours in two dimensions. The article has 8 sections. In the first section, the history of the Laplacian eigenvalue problem, the motivation and basic definitions for the authors' main results are given. In the second part, the authors consider a relatively simple case which is two nodal lines or two singular lines intersect at in irrational angle.The problem that is considered by the authors below is the following: $\Delta u=\lambda u$ (0.1), where $u\in L^2(\Omega)$ and $\lambda\in \mathbb R$, such that $\Omega$ is an open set in $\mathbb R$. In Section 3, the authors consider the general case that two line segments intersect at a rational age. Section 3 is devoted to the presentation and discussion of the main results. In Section 4, the authors show the case that the intersecting angle is irrational and the vanishing order is infinity. In Sections 5 and 6, the authors study the case that the intersecting angle is rational and the vanishing order is finite. In Section 7 is the discussion of a generic condition. And finally, in the last section, the authors establish unique recovery results for the inverse problem and the inverse diffraction grating problem by at most two incident waves.