Laplace operators with eigenfunctions whose nodal set is a knot

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2016.04.016MaRDI QIDQ281523zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alberto Enciso, David M. Hartley, Daniel Peralta-Salas

Publication date 11 May 2016

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06684

zbMATH Keywords

eigenfunctionsknotLaplace operatornodal set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: We prove that, given any knot $gamma$ in a compact 3-manifold M, there exists a Riemannian metric on M such that there is a complex-valued eigenfunction u of the Laplacian, corresponding to the first nontrivial eigenvalue, whose nodal set $u^{-1}(0)$ has a connected component given by $gamma$. Higher dimensional analogs of this result will also be considered.

Review text

In the spectral geometry of compact Riemannian manifolds, understanding the nodal sets, i.e., the zero sets of eigenfunctions, is important and complicated. For large eigenvalues, both eigenvalues and nodal sets have certain rigidity. One question is whether for low energy eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, especially the first nontrivial eigenvalue, the nodal sets can be more flexible. This paper provides some very interesting results which support such flexibility. The main result of this paper says that for any knot \(\gamma\) in a compact 3-manifold \(M\), there exists a Riemannian metric on \(M\) which admits a complex-valued eigenfunction \(u\) of the Laplace operator for the first nontrivial eigenvalue such that its nodal set \(u^{-1}(0)\) has a connected component equal to \(\gamma\).

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