Ruled nodal surfaces of Laplace eigenfunctions and injectivity sets for the spherical mean Radon transform in R^3

DOI10.4171/JST/185MaRDI QIDQ680705zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Mark L. Agranovsky

Publication date 26 January 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01250

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace operatoreigenfunctionruled surfacenodal setharmonicsspherical mean

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Radon transform (44A12) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: It is proved that if a Paley-Wiener family of eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator in $mathbb{R}^3$ vanishes on a real analytically ruled two-dimensional surface $Ssubsetmathbb{R}^3$ then $S$ is a union of cones, each of which is contained in a translate of the zero set of a nonzero harmonic homogeneous polynomial. If $S$ is an immersed $C^1-$ manifold then $S$ is a Coxeter system of planes. Full description of common nodal sets of the Laplace spectra of convexly supported distributions is given. In equivalent terms, the result describes ruled injectivity sets for the spherical mean transform and confirms, for the case of ruled surfaces in $mathbb{R}^3,$ a conjecture of E.T. Quinto and the author .

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