Prescribing the nodal set of the first eigenfunction in each conformal class

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNW126MaRDI QIDQ4611965zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alberto Enciso, Stefan Steinerberger, Daniel Peralta-Salas

Publication date 22 January 2019

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05105

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We consider the problem of prescribing the nodal set of the first nontrivial eigenfunction of the Laplacian in a conformal class. Our main result is that, given a separating closed hypersurface $Sigma$ in a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g_0)$ of dimension $dgeq3$, there is a metric $g$ on $M$ conformally equivalent to $g_0$ and with the same volume such that the nodal set of its first nontrivial eigenfunction is a $C^0$-small deformation of $Sigma$ (i.e., $Phi(Sigma)$ with $Phi:MoM$ a diffeomorphism arbitrarily close to the identity in the $C^0$ norm).

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