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Nested nodal loops of biharmonic functions

Analysis of PDEs 2026-05-19 v1

Abstract

Given any nNn\in\mathbb{N}, we construct a real-valued biharmonic polynomial on R2\mathbb{R}^2 whose zero set contains a nest of nn smooth, disjoint topological loops, meaning that the kk-th loop lies inside the domain bounded by the (k+1)(k+1)-st loop for k=1,,n1k=1,\ldots,n-1. The case n=2n=2, 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

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