Intersection bounds for nodal sets of planar Neumann eigenfunctions with interior analytic curves (Q2345385)

The authors study nodal lines of Dirichlet or Neumann eigenfunctions for the Laplacian on a piecewise analytic planar domain in the high-energy limit. More precisely, they obtain upper and lower bounds of the number of intersections of the nodal lines with a fixed curve \(H\), under two conditions: (1) the considered sequence of eigenfunctions is quantum ergodic and (2) \(H\) has strictly positive geodesic curvature. They also establish the same results under a weaker goodness condition on the eigenfunctions and \(H\).