Nodal deficiency, spectral flow, and the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map

DOI10.1007/S11005-019-01159-XMaRDI QIDQ2000960zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gregory Berkolaiko, Graham Cox, Jeremy L. Marzuola

Publication date 1 July 2019

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03145

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet-to-Neumann mapnodal domainsnodal setsspectral indices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Spectral flows (58J30)

Abstract: It was recently shown that the nodal deficiency of an eigenfunction is encoded in the spectrum of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators for the eigenfunction's positive and negative nodal domains. While originally derived using symplectic methods, this result can also be understood through the spectral flow for a family of boundary conditions imposed on the nodal set, or, equivalently, a family of operators with delta function potentials supported on the nodal set. In this paper we explicitly describe this flow for a Schr"odinger operator with separable potential on a rectangular domain, and determine a mechanism by which lower energy eigenfunctions do or do not contribute to the nodal deficiency.

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