Spectral multiplicity and nodal sets for generic torus-invariant metrics

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Authors: Donato Cianci, Christopher M. Judge, Samuel Lin, Craig J. Sutton 

Publication date: 28 July 2022

Abstract: Let a torus $T$ act freely on a closed manifold $M$ of dimension at least two. We demonstrate that, for a generic $T$-invariant Riemannian metric $g$ on $M$, each real $Delt{a}_g$-eigenspace is an irreducible real representation of $T$ and, therefore, has dimension at most two. We also show that, for the generic $T$-invariant metric on $M$, if $u$ is a non-invariant real-valued $Delt{a}_g$-eigenfunction that vanishes on some $T$-orbit, then the nodal set of $u$ is a connected smooth hypersurface whose complement has exactly two connected components.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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