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Bound states of hyperbolic potential is investigated by means of a generalized pseudospectral method. Significantly improved eigenvalues, eigenfunctions are obtained efficiently for arbitrary $n, \ell$ quantum states by solving the relevant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Amlan K. Roy

We show that any generalised smooth distribution on a smooth manifold, possibly of non-constant rank, admits a Riemannian metric. Using such a metric, we attach a Laplace operator to any smooth distribution as such. When the underlying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Iakovos Androulidakis , Yuri Kordyukov

Distributing points on a (possibly high-dimensional) sphere with minimal energy is a long-standing problem in and outside the field of mathematics. This paper considers a novel energy function that arises naturally from statistics and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Weibo Fu , Guanyang Wang , Jun Yan

In this paper, we explore the high-frequency properties of eigenfunctions of point perturbations of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold. These systems cannot be obtained as the quantization of a classical Hamiltonian, as the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Santiago Verdasco

Let $X$ be a compact connected orientable hyperbolic surface and let $X_n$ be a degree $n$ random cover. We show that, with high probability, the distribution of eigenvalues of the Laplacian on $X_n$ converges to the spectral measure of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Elena Kim , Zhongkai Tao

We pose and solve the analogue of Slepian's time-frequency concentration problem on the surface of the unit sphere to determine an orthogonal family of strictly bandlimited functions that are optimally concentrated within a closed region of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Frederik J. Simons , F. A. Dahlen , Mark A. Wieczorek

In this note we derive a sharp concentration inequality for the supremum of a smooth random field over a finite dimensional set. It is shown that this supremum can be bounded with high probability by the value of the field at some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Denis Belomestny , Vladimir Spokoiny

We study random Morse functions on a Riemann manifold $(M^m,g)$ defined as a random Gaussian weighted superpositions of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian of the metric $g$. The randomness is determined by a fixed Schwartz function $w$ and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Liviu I. Nicolaescu

We prove explicit and sharp eigenvalue estimates for Neumann $p$-Laplace eigenvalues in domains that admit a representation in Fermi coordinates. More precisely, if $\gamma$ denotes a non-closed curve in $\mathbb{R}^2$ symmetric with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Barbara Brandolini , Francesco Chiacchio , Jeffrey J. Langford

In this paper, we investigate eigenvalues of the Wentzel-Laplace operator on a bounded domain in some Riemannian manifold. We prove asymptotically optimal estimates, according to the Weyl's law through bounds that are given in terms of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Aïssatou M. Ndiaye

We examine the nonperturbative effect of maximum momentum on the relativistic wave equations. In momentum representation, we obtain the exact eigen-energies and wavefunctions of one-dimensional Klein-Gordon and Dirac equation with linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Chee Leong Ching , Wei Khim Ng

Building on seminal work of Nadirashvili and previous work of the authors, we prove the existence of metrics maximizing the area-normalized first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on every closed nonorientable surface, and give a simple new proof…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Mikhail Karpukhin , Romain Petrides , Daniel Stern

This paper investigates links between the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and the higher Cheeger constants of smooth Riemannian manifolds, possibly weighted and/or with boundary. The higher Cheeger constants…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Gary Froyland , Christopher P. Rock

We consider a random Gaussian ensemble of Laplace eigenfunctions on the 3D torus, and investigate the 1-dimensional Hausdorff measure (`length') of nodal intersections against a smooth 2-dimensional toral sub-manifold (`surface'). The…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Riccardo Walter Maffucci

In this paper, we investigate the Dirichlet problem of Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds. By constructing new trial functions, we obtain a sharp upper bound of the gap of the consecutive eigenvalues in the sense of the order, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Lingzhong Zeng

We use the theory of rectifiable metric spaces to define a Dirichlet energy of Lipschitz functions defined on the support of integral currents. This energy is obtained by integration of the square of the norm of the tangential derivative,…

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Let $\phi$ be a Laplace eigenfunction on a compact hyperbolic surface attached to an order in a quaternion algebra. Assuming that $\phi$ is an eigenfunction of Hecke operators at a \emph{fixed finite} collection of primes, we prove an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Subhajit Jana

We develop an idempotent version of probabilistic potential theory. The goal is to describe the set of max-plus harmonic functions, which give the stationary solutions of deterministic optimal control problems with additive reward. The…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-10 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Cormac Walsh

We investigate the performance of the scan (maximum likelihood ratio statistic) and of the average likelihood ratio statistic in the problem of detecting a deterministic signal with unknown spatial extent in the prototypical univariate…

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