Upper Measure Bounds of Nodal Sets of Solutions to the Bi-Harmonic Equations on C^{\infty} Riemannian Manifolds

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Authors: Long Tian, Xiao-Ping Yang 

Publication date: 21 March 2018

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the nodal set of a bi-harmonic function $u$ on an $n$ dimensional $C^{infty}$ Riemannian manifold $M$, that is, $u$ satisfies the equation $riangl{e}_M^{2}u=0$ on $M$, where $riangl{e}_M$ is the Laplacian operator on $M$. We first define the frequency function and the doubling index for the bi-harmonic function $u$, and then establish their monotonicity formulae and doubling conditions. With the help of the smallness propagation and partitions, we show that, for some ball $B_r(x_0)subseteqM$ with $r$ small enough, an upper bound for the measure of nodal set of the bi-harmonic function $u$ can be controlled by $N^{a}lpha$, that is, mathcal{H}^{n-1}left(left{xin B_{r/2}(x_0)|u(x)=0 ight} ight)leq CN^{alpha}r^{n-1}, where $N=maxleft{C}_0,N(x_0,r)ight$, $alpha$, $C$ and $C_0$ both are positive constants depending only on $n$ and $M$. Here $N(x_0,r)$ is the frequency function of $u$ centered at $x_0$ with radius $r$. Furthermore, we derive that an upper measure for nodal sets of eigenfunctions of the bi-harmonic operator on a $C^{infty}$ compact Riemannian manifold without boundary can be controlled by $$ for the corresponding eigenvalue $lambd{a}^2$ and some positive constant $$.

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