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In this paper, we prove a Logarithmic Conjugation Theorem on finitely-connected tori. The theorem states that a harmonic function can be written as the real part of a function whose derivative is analytic and a finite sum of terms involving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Chiu-Yen Kao , Braxton Osting , Édouard Oudet

We study the size of nodal sets of Laplacian eigenfunctions on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary and recover the currently optimal lower bound by comparing the heat flow of the eigenfunction with that of an artifically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Stefan Steinerberger

It has been suggested that the distribution of the suitably normalized number of zeros of Laplacian eigenfunctions contains information about the geometry of the underlying domain. We study this distribution (more precisely, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Lior Alon , Ram Band , Gregory Berkolaiko

For a fixed marked surface $S$, we construct polynomial bounds on the periodic and preperiodic lengths of the maximal splitting sequences of a projectively invariant measured train track. We give two consequences of these bounds. Firstly,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Mark C. Bell

In this article we have studied some properties of subharmonic functions in a strongly symmetric Riemannian manifold with a pole. As a generalization of polynomial growth of a function we have introduced the notion of polynomial growth of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Absos Ali Shaikh , Chandan Kumar Mondal

We give two results concerning the power of the Sum-of-Squares(SoS)/Lasserre hierarchy. For binary polynomial optimization problems of degree $2d$ and an odd number of variables $n$, we prove that $\frac{n+2d-1}{2}$ levels of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Adam Kurpisz , Samuli Leppänen , Monaldo Mastrolilli

It is an open problem in general to prove that there exists a sequence of $\Delta_g$-eigenfunctions $\phi_{j_k}$ on a Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ for which the number $N(\phi_{j_k}) $ of nodal domains tends to infinity with the eigenvalue.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Junehyuk Jung , Steve Zelditch

We investigate the geometric properties of Steklov eigenfunctions in smooth manifolds. We derive the refined doubling estimates and Bernstein's inequalities. For the real analytic manifolds, we are able to obtain the sharp upper bound for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Jiuyi Zhu

We study the nodal sets of Neumann Laplace eigenfunctions in a bounded domain with $\mathcal{C}^{1,1}$ boundary. We show that for $u_\lambda$ such that $\Delta u_\lambda + \lambda u_\lambda = 0 $ with the Neumann boundary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Shaghayegh Fazliani

We prove the existence of nonconstant harmonic maps of optimal regularity from an arbitrary closed manifold $(M^n,g)$ of dimension $n>2$ to any closed, non-aspherical manifold $N$ containing no stable minimal two-spheres. In particular,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Mikhail Karpukhin , Daniel Stern

We prove explicit doubling inequalities and obtain uniform upper bounds (under $(d-1)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure) of nodal sets of weak solutions for a family of linear elliptic equations with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Carlos E. Kenig , Jiuyi Zhu , Jinping Zhuge

We proved two Three Circles Theorems for harmonic functions on manifolds in integral sense. As one application, on manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, whose tangent cone at infinity is the unique metric cone with unique conic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Guoyi Xu

In this article, we investigate the conjecture posed by Nadirashvili in 1997. It states that if a harmonic function has bounded nodal volume in the unit ball, then the supermum over the half-ball can be bounded by a finite sum of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Jiahuan Li , Junyuan Wang , Zhichen Ying

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

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

Among all two-dimensional commutative algebras of the second rank a totally of all their biharmonic bases $\{e_1,e_2\}$, satisfying conditions $\left(e_1^2+ e_2^2\right)^{2} = 0$, $e_1^2 + e_2^2 \ne 0$, is found in an explicit form. A set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-30 S. V. Gryshchuk

The $p$-widths of a closed Riemannian manifold are a nonlinear analogue of the spectrum of its Laplace--Beltrami operator, which corresponds to areas of a certain min-max sequence of possibly singular minimal submanifolds. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Otis Chodosh , Christos Mantoulidis

Laplace problems on planar domains can be solved by means of least-squares expansions associated with polynomial or rational approximations. Here it is shown that, even in the context of an analytic domain with analytic boundary data, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Lloyd N. Trefethen

In this paper, we consider the nodal set of a bi-harmonic function $u$ on an $n$ dimensional $C^{\infty}$ Riemannian manifold $M$, that is, $u$ satisfies the equation $\triangle_M^2u=0$ on $M$, where $\triangle_M$ is the Laplacian operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Long Tian , Xiaoping Yang