Localization of Neumann eigenfunctions near irregular boundaries

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AAFA89MaRDI QIDQ4615003zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 1 February 2019

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01108

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Laplacian eigenfunctionslocalizationquantum chaos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat kernel (35K08) PDEs on graphs and networks (ramified or polygonal spaces) (35R02) Spectral, collocation and related (meshless) methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M22)

Abstract: It has been empirically observed that eigenfunctions of Laplace's equation $-Deltaphi=lambdaphi$ with Neumann boundary conditions sometimes localize near the boundary of the domain if that boundary is rough (say, fractal). This has some nontrivial implications in acoustics that has been put to real-life use (sound attenuation by noise-protective walls); this short paper describes the mathematical mechanism responsible for this and describes the quantitative strength of the phenomenon for some examples.

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