Lower bounds for the number of nodal domains for sums of two distorted plane waves in non-positive curvature

DOI10.4310/AJM.2020.V24.N3.A2MaRDI QIDQ2004313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maxime Ingremeau

Publication date 14 October 2020

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01911

zbMATH Keywords

distorted plane wavesnodal domainsquantum chaosscattering theorysemiclassical analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations of PDEs on manifolds; asymptotics (58J37) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Relations between spectral theory and ergodic theory, e.g., quantum unique ergodicity (58J51) Random fields (60G60)

Abstract: In this paper, we will consider generalised eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on some surfaces of infinite area. We will be interested in lower bounds on the number of nodal domains of such eigenfunctions which are included in a given bounded set. We will first of all consider finite sums of plane waves, and give a criterion on the amplitudes and directions of propagation of these plane waves which guarantees an optimal lower bound, of the same order as Courant's upper bound. As an application, we will obtain optimal lower bounds for the number of nodal domains of distorted plane waves on some families of surfaces of non-positive curvature.

Review text

Under the frame of a Riemannian surface (which is Euclidean near infinity) endowed with a negative curvature and satisfying two meaningful conditions, the author provides a lower bound of the number of nodal domains (in a bounded domain) associated to an eigenfunction of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The author furnishes an optimal lower bound for special cases.

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