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Along with the partition of a planar bounded domain $\Omega$ by the nodal set of a fixed eigenfunction of the Laplace operator in $\Omega$, one can consider another natural partition of $\Omega$ by, roughly speaking, gradient flow lines of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 T. V. Anoop , Vladimir Bobkov , Mrityunjoy Ghosh

We prove that the number of nodal domains of a density one subsequence of eigenfunctions grows at least logarithmically with the eigenvalue on negatively curved `real Riemann surfaces'. The geometric model is the same as in prior joint work…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Steve Zelditch

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of the principal eigenvalues associated to the Pucci operator in bounded domain $\Omega$ with Neumann/Robin boundary condition i.e. $\partial_n u=\alpha u$ when $\alpha$ tends to infinity. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-12 I. Birindelli , S. Patrizi

This paper investigates the second Neumann eigenfunction $u$ of a planar triangle $T$. In a recent paper by Judge and Mondal [Ann. Math., 2022], it was shown that $u$ has no critical points in the interior of $T$. In this paper, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Hongbin Chen , Changfeng Gui , Ruofei Yao

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

The nodal set of a Laplacian eigenfunction forms a partition of the underlying manifold or graph. Another natural partition is based on the gradient vector field of the eigenfunction (on a manifold) or on the extremal points of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Lior Alon , Ram Band , Michael Bersudsky , Sebastian Egger

We put forward and prove a simple theorem stating that the eigenvalues of a tridiagonal matrix change their sign (as a set), once the signs of the diagonal elements of the matrix are changed. We also provide an example of application of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Michael Kreshchuk

Consider the eigenfunctions $u$ for a ree rectangular membrane wo that $-\Delta u=\lambda u$ on $\mathcal R(c,d)=(0,d)\times(0,d)$. In this note we show that if if $u>0$ on $\partial \mathcal R(c,d)) then $u\equiv C$ for some positive…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-01 Thomas Hoffmann-Ostenhof

We find the Courant-sharp Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on some 2-rep-tile domains. In $\R^{2}$ the domains we consider are the isosceles right triangle and the rectangle with edge ratio $\sqrt{2}$ (also known as the A4 paper). In…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Ram Band , Michael Bersudsky , David Fajman

In this paper, we study an eigenvalue problem with piecewise constant coefficients on thin domains with Neumann boundary condition, and we analyze the asymptotic behavior of each eigenvalue as the domain degenerates into a certain…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Toshiaki Yachimura

We study the nodal deficiency of pairs of Neumann eigenfunctions defined over symmetric dumbbell domains. As the width of the connecting neck shrinks, these eigenfunctions converge to Neumann eigenfunctions defined over the ends of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Thomas Beck , Andrew Lyons

Let M be a closed Riemannian manifold. We consider the inner radius of a nodal domain for a large eigenvalue \lambda. We give upper and lower bounds on the inner radius of the type C/\lambda^k. Our proof is based on a local behavior of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-05-11 Dan Mangoubi

We prove sharp upper and lower bounds for the nodal length of Steklov eigenfunctions on real-analytic Riemannian surfaces with boundary. The argument involves frequency function methods for harmonic functions in the interior of the surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Iosif Polterovich , David A. Sher , John A. Toth

In this paper, we investigate the eigenvalue problem for a non-local dispersal operator defined on a bounded spatial domain with Neumann-type boundary conditions. Unlike the classical Laplacian, the non-local operator lacks compactness,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Maciej Tadej

Analyzing nodal domains is a way to discern the structure of eigenvectors of operators on a graph. We give a new definition extending the concept of nodal domains to arbitrary signed graphs, and therefore to arbitrary symmetric matrices. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Theo McKenzie , John Urschel

We present a new and direct proof of the local Neumann isoperimetric inequality on convex domains of a Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded below.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Xianzhe Dai , Guofang Wei , Zhenlei Zhang

We investigate symmetry properties of the first nontrivial eigenfunctions of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$, where $s \in (0,1)$, in an $N$-dimensional ball with nonlocal Neumann boundary conditions. By means of a spectral stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Vladimir Bobkov , Enea Parini

Inspired by a recent result of Funano's, we provide a sharp quantitative comparison result between the first nontrivial eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian on bounded convex domains $\Omega_{1} \subset \Omega_{2}$ in any dimension $d$…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Pedro Freitas , James B. Kennedy

We initiate a systematic study of eigenvectors of random graphs. Whereas much is known about eigenvalues of graphs and how they reflect properties of the underlying graph, relatively little is known about the corresponding eigenvectors. Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-02 Yael Dekel , James R. Lee , Nathan Linial

We consider the lower bound of nodal sets of Steklov eigenfunctions on smooth Riemannian manifolds with boundary--the eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Let $N_\lambda$ be its nodal set. Assume that zero is a regular value of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Xing Wang , Jiuyi Zhu