Computing eigenfunctions on the Koch snowflake: a new grid and symmetry.

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2005.03.075zbMATH Open1094.35085arXiv1010.0775OpenAlexW2039350867MaRDI QIDQ2490722FDOQ2490722

Authors: John M. Neuberger, Nándor Sieben, James W. Swift 

Publication date: 18 May 2006

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we numerically solve the eigenvalue problem $Deltau+lambdau=0$ on the fractal region defined by the Koch Snowflake, with zero-Dirichlet or zero-Neumann boundary conditions. The Laplacian with boundary conditions is approximated by a large symmetric matrix. The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of this matrix are computed by ARPACK. We impose the boundary conditions in a way that gives improved accuracy over the previous computations of Lapidus, Neuberger, Renka & Griffith. We extrapolate the results for grid spacing $h$ to the limit $hightarrow0$ in order to estimate eigenvalues of the Laplacian and compare our results to those of Lapdus et al. We analyze the symmetry of the region to explain the multiplicity-two eigenvalues, and present a canonical choice of the two eigenfunctions that span each two-dimensional eigenspace.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0775

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesLaplacianeigenfucntionsKoch snowflake region

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Completeness of eigenfunctions and eigenfunction expansions in context of PDEs (35P10) Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and nonlinear spectral theory for PDEs (35P30) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Discrete potential theory (31C20)

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Uses Software

• ARPACK

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