No label defined (Q4383404)

Given \(\alpha >0\) let \(h\) be a positive solution of the Helmholtz equation \(\Delta u-2\alpha u=0\) on \(\mathbb R^n\). The problem is to characterize all subsets \(M\) of \(\mathbb R^n\) such that \[ \inf_{x\in \mathbb R^n}\frac {u(x)}{h(x)}=\inf_{x\in M} \frac {u(x)}{h(x)} \] for every positive solution \(u\) of the Helmholtz equation on \(\mathbb R^n\). The problem is solved in the case where \(h\) is of the form \[ h(x)=\int_{S^{n-1}}e^{\lambda \langle x,y\rangle} d\sigma(y), \] where \(\lambda =(2\alpha)^{-1/2}\), \(S^{n-1}\) is the unit sphere in \(\mathbb R^n\), \(\sigma \) denotes the surface measure on \(S^{n-1}\). A closely related problem of representing functions of the space \(L_1(S^{n-1})\) by sums of blocks of the form \(e^{\lambda \langle x_k,.\rangle}/h(x_k)\) corresponding to points of \(M\) is also investigated.