On Nodal Sets for Dirac and Laplace Operators

DOI10.1007/S002200050184zbMATH Open0888.47028arXivdg-ga/9707008OpenAlexW2167167527MaRDI QIDQ1374770FDOQ1374770

Authors: Christian Bär 

Publication date: 10 December 1997

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the nodal set (zero set) of a solution of a generalized Dirac equation on a Riemannian manifold has codimension 2 at least. If the underlying manifold is a surface, then the nodal set is discrete. We obtain a quick proof of the fact that the nodal set of an eigenfunction for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a Riemannian manifold consists of a smooth hypersurface and a singular set of lower dimension. We also see that the nodal set of a $Delta$-harmonic differential form on a closed manifold has codimension 2 at least; a fact which is not true if the manifold is not closed. Examples show that all bounds are optimal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9707008

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zbMATH Keywords

Laplace-Beltrami operatorRiemannian manifoldgeneralized Dirac equationnodal setzero set\(\Delta\)-harmonic differential form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of partial differential operators (47F05) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

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