English

Eigenfunction concentration for polygonal billiards

Analysis of PDEs 2008-09-29 v2

Abstract

In this note, we extend the results on eigenfunction concentration in billiards as proved by the third author in \cite{M1}. There, the methods developed in Burq-Zworski \cite{BZ3} to study eigenfunctions for billiards which have rectangular components were applied. Here we take an arbitrary polygonal billiard BB and show that eigenfunction mass cannot concentrate away from the vertices; in other words, given any neighbourhood UU of the vertices, there is a lower bound Uu2cBu2 \int_U |u|^2 \geq c \int_B |u|^2 for some c=c(U)>0c = c(U) > 0 and any eigenfunction uu.

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@article{arxiv.0805.3826,
  title  = {Eigenfunction concentration for polygonal billiards},
  author = {Andrew Hassell and Luc Hillairet and Jeremy Marzuola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3826},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures

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