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We investigate the relation between the eigenvalues of the Laplacian with Kirchhoff vertex conditions on a finite metric graph and a corresponding Titchmarsh-Weyl function (a parameter-dependent Neumann-to-Dirichlet map). We give a complete…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Christian Kühn , Jonathan Rohleder

In this paper, we show that equality in Courant's nodal domain theorem can only be reached for a finite number of eigenvalues of the Neumann Laplacian, in the case of an open, bounded and connected set in R n with a C 1,1 boundary. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Corentin Léna

We study a quantum Hamiltonian that is given by the (negative) Laplacian and an infinite chain of $\delta$-like potentials with strength $\kappa>0$ on the half line $\rz_{\geq0}$ and which is equivalent to a one-parameter family of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-29 Sebastian Egger , Frank Steiner

A Laplacian eigenfunction on a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold provides a natural partition into Neumann domains (a.k.a. a Morse--Smale complex). This partition is generated by gradient flow lines of the eigenfunction, which bound the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Ram Band , Graham Cox , Sebastian Egger

We undertake a systematic investigation of the maxima and minima of the eigenfunctions associated with the first nontrivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a metric graph equipped with standard (continuity--Kirchhoff) vertex conditions. This…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-05 James B. Kennedy , Jonathan Rohleder

The Laplacian matrix of the $n$-dimensional hypercube has $n+1$ distinct eigenvalues $2i$, where $0\leq i\leq n$. In 2004, B\i y\i ko\u{g}lu, Hordijk, Leydold, Pisanski and Stadler initiated the study of eigenfunctions of hypercubes with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Alexandr Valyuzhenich , Konstantin Vorob'ev

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

Let $K$ be a p.c.f. self-similar set equipped with a strongly recurrent Dirichlet form. Under a homogeneity assumption, for an open set $\Omega\subset K$ whose boundary $\partial \Omega$ is a graph-directed self-similar set, we prove that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Qingsong Gu , Hua Qiu

We study the nodal set of the Steklov eigenfunctions on the boundary of a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ - the eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Under the assumption that the domain $\Omega$ is $C^2$, we prove a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Katarina Bellova , Fanghua Lin

We consider weighted graphs with an infinite set of vertices. We show that boundedness of all functions of finite energy can be seen as a notion of `relative compactness' for such graphs and study sufficient and necessary conditions for…

We introduce and study Laplacians on a finite metric graph endowed with generalized densities, that is, measures of finite mass. One important motivation is that this setting provides a common framework for several interesting classes of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Kiyan Naderi , Noema Nicolussi

In 2001, Davies, Gladwell, Leydold, and Stadler proved discrete nodal domain theorems for eigenfunctions of generalized Laplacians. In 2019, Jost and Mulas generalized the normalized combinatorial Laplace operator of graphs to signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Lei Zhang , Yaoping Hou

Generalizing Courant's nodal domain theorem, the "Extended Courant property" is the statement that a linear combination of the first $n$ eigenfunctions has at most $n$ nodal domains. A related question is to estimate the number of connected…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Pierre Bérard , Philippe Charron , Bernard Helffer

The asymptotic behavior of the first eigenvalues of magnetic Laplacian operators with large magnetic fields and Neumann realization in smooth three-dimensional domains is characterized by model problems inside the domain or on its boundary.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël , Monique Dauge , Nicolas Popoff

A number of recent papers have considered signed graph Laplacians, a generalization of the classical graph Laplacian, where the edge weights are allowed to take either sign. In the classical case, where the edge weights are all positive,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Ikemefuna Agbanusi , Jared C. Bronski , Derek Kielty

We show the existence of planar domains with one hole for which the first non-trivial Neumann eigenfunction has a closed nodal line fully contained inside the domain. This is optimal, as it is known since Pleijel's 1956 result that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Pedro Freitas , Roméo Leylekian

Does every $n$-vertex Cayley graph have an orthonormal eigenbasis all of whose coordinates are $O(1/\sqrt{n})$? While the answer is yes for abelian groups, we show that it is no in general. On the other hand, we show that every $n$-vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney , Yufei Zhao

Let $G$ be a random $d$-regular graph. We prove that for every constant $\alpha > 0$, with high probability every eigenvector of the adjacency matrix of $G$ with eigenvalue less than $-2\sqrt{d-2}-\alpha$ has $\Omega(n/$polylog$(n))$ nodal…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Shirshendu Ganguly , Theo McKenzie , Sidhanth Mohanty , Nikhil Srivastava

In this paper, we considered the spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian $\Delta_\epsilon$ on $\Omega_\epsilon=\{(x,y): -l_1<x<l_2, 0<y<\epsilon h(x)]\}$ where $ l_1,l_2>0$ and $h(x)$ is a positive analytic function having $0$ the only point…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Lanbo Fang

Using functions from electrical networks (graphs with resistors assigned to edges), we prove existence (with explicit formulas) of a canonical Parseval frame in the energy Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}_{E}$ of a prescribed infinite (or finite)…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian