Closed Nodal Lines and Interior Hot Spots of the Second Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on Surfaces

DOI10.1512/iumj.2002.51.2208zbMath1026.58023arXivmath/0009153OpenAlexW2962815381MaRDI QIDQ4545184

Pedro Freitas

Publication date: 14 August 2002

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009153

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet Laplaciansecond eigenvalueNeumann Laplacianclosed nodal lineshot spot conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

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