Weyl's problem for the spectral distribution of Laplacians on P.C.F. self-similar fractals (Q1313282)

The classical theorem of Weyl for the asymptotics of eigenvalues of the Laplacian is generalized from the case of regular domain in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) to the case of finitely ramified selfsimilar fractal sets. The authors prove that the eigenvalue counting function \(\rho (x)\) for the Laplacian on a fractal set satisfies the inequality \[ c_ I \leq \rho (x)x^{-d_ s/2} \leq c_ 2, \quad x \to \infty \] where the spectral exponents \(d_ s\) is the unique positive solution of the equation \(\sum^ N_{i = 1} \gamma_ i^{d_ s} = 1\) with numbers \(\gamma_ i\) characterising scaling properties of the eigenvalue counting function under \(N\) similarity mappings. If the additive group with the basis \(\log \gamma_ i\), \(i = 1,\dots,N\) is a dense subgroup of \(\mathbb{R}\) then \[ \rho (x)x^{- d_ s/2} = c + o(1), \quad x \to \infty. \] If the additive group with the basis \(\log \gamma_ i\), \(i = 1,\dots,N\) is a discrete subgroup of \(\mathbb{R}\), then \[ \rho (x) x^{-d_ s/2} = G(\log x/2) + o(1), \quad x \to \infty \] where \(G(t)\) is a positive periodic function. The theorem is illustrated on different types of finitely ramified self-similar fractal sets: the interval, the canonical and modified Sierpinski gaskets, the Hata tree-like set, the Lindstrøm set. It is valid both for the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The authors have reviewed also Laplacians, Green functions, Dirichlet forms and variational formulation of the eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on fractals.