On the nodal sets of toral eigenfunctions (Q635853)

The aim of the paper is to investigate how the nodal sets of the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the standard flat torus \(T^d=\mathbb R^d/\mathbb Z^d\) vary when the eigenvalue increases. Specifically, the problem whether a given hypersurface can lie on infinitely many nodal sets is studied. It is shown for \(d=2\) that this holds true only for segments of closed geodesics. The main result of the paper proves that in higher dimensions a hypersurface with nowhere zero Gauss-Kronecker curvature cannot lie within the nodal set of any eigenfunction corresponding to a sufficiently large eigenvalue. Relevant geometric constructions are presented in the proofs and the appendix.