Sign and area in nodal geometry of Laplace eigenfunctions

DOI10.1353/AJM.2005.0030MaRDI QIDQ5693532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 26 September 2005

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

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

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)

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.

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