Nested nodal loops of biharmonic functions
Analysis of PDEs
2026-05-19 v1
Abstract
Given any , we construct a real-valued biharmonic polynomial on whose zero set contains a nest of smooth, disjoint topological loops, meaning that the -th loop lies inside the domain bounded by the -st loop for . The case , i.e., the existence of two nested loops, is related to the failure of the Boggio-Hadamard conjecture from the early 1900s.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.18699,
title = {Nested nodal loops of biharmonic functions},
author = {Javier Gómez-Serrano and Robert Koirala and Alexander Logunov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18699},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, comments welcome