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Lower Bound of Nodal Sets in Elliptic Homogenization and Functions with Strong Maximum Principle

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-23 v2

Abstract

In this note, we first try to prove a uniform lower bound of nodal volume in elliptic homogenization setting. This lower bound is far from optimal. But, we can prove a constant lower bound in dimension two. Motivated by the proof, we extend this results to more general settings. To be more specific, we prove that the nodal volume has a constant lower bound for all continuous functions with strong maximum principle. Our result works for general functions beyond solutions to elliptic PDEs.

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@article{arxiv.2512.12305,
  title  = {Lower Bound of Nodal Sets in Elliptic Homogenization and Functions with Strong Maximum Principle},
  author = {Jiahuan Li and Zhichen Ying},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12305},
  year   = {2025}
}