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The nodal line of the second eigenfunction of the Robin Laplacian in $\mathbb{R}^2$ can be closed

Analysis of PDEs 2010-09-27 v1

Abstract

We construct a multiply connected domain in R2\mathbb{R}^2 for which the second eigenfunction of the Laplacian with Robin boundary conditions has an interior nodal line. In the process, we adapt a bound of Donnelly-Fefferman type to obtain a uniform estimate on the size of the nodal sets of a sequence of solutions to a certain class of elliptic equations in the interior of a sequence of domains, which does not depend directly on any boundary behaviour. This also gives a new proof of the nodal line property of the example in the Dirichlet case.

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@article{arxiv.1009.4768,
  title  = {The nodal line of the second eigenfunction of the Robin Laplacian in $\mathbb{R}^2$ can be closed},
  author = {J. B. Kennedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4768},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages