Sign and area in nodal geometry of Laplace eigenfunctions

DOI10.1353/AJM.2005.0030zbMATH Open1079.58026arXivmath/0402412OpenAlexW2019921075MaRDI QIDQ5693532FDOQ5693532

Authors: Fedor Nazarov, M. I. Sodin, Leonid Polterovich 

Publication date: 26 September 2005

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper deals with asymptotic nodal geometry for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on closed surfaces. Given an eigenfunction f corresponding to a large eigenvalue, we study local asymmetry of the distribution of sign(f) with respect to the surface area. It is measured as follows: take any disc centered at the nodal line {f=0}, and pick at random a point in this disc. What is the probability that the function assumes a positive value at the chosen point? We show that this quantity may decay logarithmically as the eigenvalue goes to infinity, but never faster than that. In other words, only a mild local asymmetry may appear. The proof combines methods due to Donnelly-Fefferman and Nadirashvili with a new result on harmonic functions in the unit disc.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402412

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zbMATH Keywords

Laplace-Beltrami operatornodal geometryNadirashvili constant for harmonic functionsquasi-symmetry for eigenfunctions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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