On the contact geometry of nodal sets

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03970-XzbMATH Open1156.53318arXivmath/0402070MaRDI QIDQ3373715FDOQ3373715

Authors: Rafal Komendarczyk 

Publication date: 8 March 2006

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the 3-dimensional Riemannian geometry, contact structures equipped with an adapted Riemannian metric are divergence-free, nondegenerate eigenforms of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. We trace out a 2-d analogue of this fact: there is a close relationship between the topology of the contact structure on a convex surface in the 3-manifold (the dividing curves) and the nodal curves of Laplacian eigenfunctions on that surface. Motivated by this relationship, we consider a topological version of Payne's conjecture for the free membrane problem. We construct counterexamples to Payne's conjecture for closed Riemannian surfaces. In light of the correspondence between the nodal lines and dividing curves, we interpret Payne's conjecture in terms of the tight versus overtwisted dichotomy for contact structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402070

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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