Intersection bounds for nodal sets of planar Neumann eigenfunctions with interior analytic curves

DOI10.4310/JDG/1427202763MaRDI QIDQ2345385zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Layan El Hajj, John Toth

Publication date 22 May 2015

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3395, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1427202763

zbMATH Keywords

nodal setsquantum ergodicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Relations between spectral theory and ergodic theory, e.g., quantum unique ergodicity (58J51)

Abstract: Let $Omegasubset{R}^2$ be a bounded piecewise smooth domain and $ph{i}_{l}ambda$ be a Neumann (or Dirichlet) eigenfunction with eigenvalue $lambd{a}^2$ and nodal set $N_{ph{i}_{lambda}}=xinOmega;ph{i}_{lambda}(x)=0.$ Let $HsubsetOmega$ be an interior $C^{omega}$ curve. Consider the intersection number ${\displaystyle }$ n(lambda,H):= # (H cap N_{phi_{lambda}} ).${\displaystyle }$ We first prove that for general piecewise-analytic domains, and under an appropriate "goodness" condition on $H$, ${\displaystyle }$ n(lambda,H) = {mathcal O}_H(lambda) (*)${\displaystyle }$ as $lambdaightarrowinfty.$ We then prove that the bound in $(\ast )$ is satisfied in the case of quantum ergodic (QE) sequences of interior eigenfunctions, provided $Omega$ is convex and $H$ has strictly positive geodesic curvature.

Review text

The authors study nodal lines of Dirichlet or Neumann eigenfunctions for the Laplacian on a piecewise analytic planar domain in the high-energy limit. More precisely, they obtain upper and lower bounds of the number of intersections of the nodal lines with a fixed curve \(H\), under two conditions: (1) the considered sequence of eigenfunctions is quantum ergodic and (2) \(H\) has strictly positive geodesic curvature. They also establish the same results under a weaker goodness condition on the eigenfunctions and \(H\).

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