On the nodal count statistics for separable systems in any dimension

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/4/045201zbMATH Open1290.35165arXiv1208.2120OpenAlexW3102770237WikidataQ62596101 ScholiaQ62596101MaRDI QIDQ4920397FDOQ4920397

Authors: Stylianos Lois, Sven Gnutzmann 

Publication date: 17 May 2013

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the statistics of the number of nodal domains aka nodal counts for eigenfunctions of separable wave equations in arbitrary dimension. We give an explicit expression for the limiting distribution of normalised nodal counts and analyse some of its universal properties. Our results are illustrated by detailed discussion of simple examples and numerical nodal count distributions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2120

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenfunctionsnodal domainnodal setnodal countstationary Schrödinger equationseparable wave equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Spectral theory and eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations (35P99)

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