Logarithmic lower bound on the number of nodal domains

DOI10.4171/JST/152zbMATH Open1380.58024arXiv1510.05315MaRDI QIDQ516586FDOQ516586

Authors: Steve Zelditch 

Publication date: 14 March 2017

Published in: Journal of Spectral Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the number of nodal domains of a density one subsequence of eigenfunctions grows at least logarithmically with the eigenvalue on negatively curved `real Riemann surfaces'. The geometric model is the same as in prior joint work with Junehyuk Jung (arXiv:1310.2919, to appear in J. Diff. Geom), where the number of nodal domains was shown to tend to infinity, but without a specified rate. The proof of the logarithmic rate uses the new logarithmic scale quantum ergodicity results of Hezari-Riviere (arXiv:1411.4078) and X. Han (arXiv:1410.3911).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05315

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenfunctionsnegative curvaturenodal domainsRiemannian surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Relations between spectral theory and ergodic theory, e.g., quantum unique ergodicity (58J51) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

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