Non-boundedness of the number of super level domains of eigenfunctions

DOI10.1007/S11854-021-0189-9MaRDI QIDQ2164773zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philippe Charron, Bernard Helffer, Pierre Bérard

Publication date 17 August 2022

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03668

zbMATH Keywords

Courant's nodal domain theoremestimation of the number of connected components of level sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05)

Abstract: Generalizing Courant's nodal domain theorem, the "Extended Courant property" is the statement that a linear combination of the first $n$ eigenfunctions has at most $n$ nodal domains. A related question is to estimate the number of connected components of the (super) level sets of a Neumann eigenfunction $u$. Indeed, in this case, the first eigenfunction is constant, and looking at the level sets of $u$ amounts to looking at the nodal sets $u-a=0$, where $a$ is a real constant. In the first part of the paper, we prove that the Extended Courant property is false for the subequilateral triangle and for regular $N$-gons ($N$ large), with the Neumann boundary condition. More precisely, we prove that there exists a Neumann eigenfunction $u_k$ of the $N$-gon, with labelling $k$, $4lekle6$, such that the set $u_{k}ot=1$ has $(N+1)$ connected components. In the second part, we prove that there exists a metric $g$ on $mathbb{T}^2$ (resp. on $mathbb{S}^2$), which can be chosen arbitrarily close to the flat metric (resp. round metric), and an eigenfunction $u$ of the associated Laplace-Beltrami operator, such that the set $uot=1$ has infinitely many connected components. In particular the Extended Courant property is false for these closed surfaces. These results are strongly motivated by a recent paper by Buhovsky, Logunov and Sodin. As for the positive direction, in Appendix~B, we prove that the Extended Courant property is true for the isotropic quantum harmonic oscillator in $mathbb{R}^2$.

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