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This article is the continuation of our first work on the determination of the cases where there is equality in Courant's Nodal Domain theorem in the case of a Robin boundary condition (with Robin parameter $h$). For the square, our first…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Katie Gittins , Bernard Helffer

We use the sum-of-squares theorem from number theory to construct eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the $d$-dimensional torus, $d \geq 2$, which vanish to any prescribed order at some point. These functions are then applied to provide a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Matthias Täufer

We give uniform upper and lower bounds for the L^2 norm of the restriction of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the three-dimensional standard flat torus to surfaces with non-vanishing curvature. We also present several related results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-23 Jean Bourgain , Zeev Rudnick

In this note, we discuss a question posed by T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof concerning the parity of the number of nodal domains for a non-constant eigenfunction of the Laplacian on flat tori. We present two results. We first show that on the torus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-15 Corentin Léna

We consider the cases where there is equality in Courant's nodal domain theorem for the Laplacian with a Robin boundary condition on the square. In our previous two papers, we treated the cases where the Robin parameter $h>0$ is large,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Katie Gittins , Bernard Helffer

The paper addresses the the number of nodal domains for eigenfunctions of Schr\"{o}dinger operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions in bounded domains. In dimension one, the $n$th eigenfunction has $n$ nodal domains. The Courant Theorem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Gregory Berkolaiko , Peter Kuchment , Uzy Smilansky

In this paper, we study the maximization problem of the second non-zero Laplace eigenvalue $\lambda_2(T,g)$ on a torus $T$, among all unit-area metrics in a fixed conformal class. First, we obtain a new upper bound for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Fan Kang

We provide a proof of the conjecture formulated in \cite{Jak97,JNT01} which states that on a $n$-dimensional flat torus $\T^{n}$, the Fourier transform of squares of the eigenfunctions $|\phi_\lambda|^2$ of the Laplacian have uniform $l^n$…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-06 Tayeb Aissiou

Consider the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a closed surface as a functional on the space of Riemannian metrics of unit area. N. Nadirashvili has discovered a remarkable connection between critical points of this functional…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Mikhail Karpukhin

For a hyponormal operator, C. R. Putnam's inequality gives an upper bound on the norm of its self-commutator. In the special case of a Toeplitz operator with analytic symbol in the Smirnov space of a domain, there is also a geometric lower…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Steven R. Bell , Timothy Ferguson , Erik Lundberg

The sum of the first $n \geq 1$ eigenvalues of the Laplacian is shown to be maximal among simplexes for the regular simplex (the regular tetrahedron, in three dimensions), maximal among parallelepipeds for the hypercube, and maximal among…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Richard Laugesen , Bartlomiej Siudeja

We obtain upper bounds on the number of nodal domains of Laplace eigenfunctions on chain domains with Neumann boundary conditions. The chain domains consist of a family of planar domains, with piecewise smooth boundary, that are joined by…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Thomas Beck , Yaiza Canzani , Jeremy L. Marzuola

We prove the Pleijel theorem in non-collapsed RCD spaces, providing an asymptotic upper bound on the number of nodal domains of Laplacian eigenfunctions. As a consequence, we obtain that the Courant nodal domain theorem holds except at most…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Nicolò De Ponti , Sara Farinelli , Ivan Yuri Violo

We prove a new quantum variance estimate for toral eigenfunctions. As an application, we show that, given any orthonormal basis of toral eigenfunctions and any smooth embedded hypersurface with nonvanishing principal curvatures, there…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Hamid Hezari , Gabriel Riviere

In this paper we consider the second eigenfunction of the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions in convex domains. If the domain has \emph{large eccentricity} then the eigenfunction has \emph{exactly} two nondegenerate critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Fabio De Regibus , Massimo Grossi

We compare the eigenvalues of the Dirac and Laplace operator on a two-dimensional torus with respect to the trivial spin structure. In particular, we compute their variation up to order 4 upon deformation of the flat metric, study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilka Agricola , Bernd Ammann , Thomas Friedrich

We study the fine scale $L^2$-mass distribution of toral Laplace eigenfunctions with respect to random position, in 2 and 3 dimensions. In 2d, under certain flatness assumptions on the Fourier coefficients and generic restrictions on energy…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Igor Wigman , Nadav Yesha

In this note we prove a version of the classical Schwarz lemma for the first eigenvalues of the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary data. A key ingredient in our proof is an isoperimetric inequality for the first eigenfunction, due to Payne…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Tom Carroll , Jesse Ratzkin

We establish in this paper an upper bound on the second eigenvalue of n-dimensional spheres in the conformal class of the round sphere. This upper bound holds in all dimensions and is asymptotically sharp as the dimension increases.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Romain Petrides

In this paper, we prove an upper bound on the second non-zero Laplacian eigenvalue on $n$-dimensional real projective space. The sharp result for 2-dimensions was shown by Nadirashvili and Penskoi and later by Karpukhin when the metric…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Hanna N. Kim