Number of nodal domains and singular points of eigenfunctions of negatively curved surfaces with an isometric involution (Q5964029)

Let \(M\) be a compact Riemannian surface endowed with an anti-holomorphic involution \(\sigma\) such that \(M\setminus\mathrm{Fix}(\sigma)\) has two components. The main result of the paper focuses on the problem to have that the number of nodal domains of the even or odd \(\Delta_g\)-eigenfunctions might approach infinity for any \(\sigma\)-invariant negatively curved Riemannian metric on \(M\). Other results of independent interest concern the number of zeros of even eigenfunctions restricted to \(\mathrm{Fix}(\sigma)\) and the number of singular points of odd eigenfunctions on \(\mathrm{Fix}(\sigma)\).