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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

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian surface with no boundary. Given a smooth vector field $V$ with finitely many zeroes on $M$, we study the distribution of the number of tangencies to $V$ of the nodal components of random…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Suresh Eswarathasan , Igor Wigman

The nodal set of the Laplacian eigenfunction has co-dimension one and has finite hypersurface measure on a compact Riemannian manifold. In this paper, we investigate the distribution of the nodal sets of eigenfunctions, when the metric on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Xiaolong Han

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

We consider a Laplace eigenfunction $\varphi_\lambda$ on a smooth closed Riemannian manifold, that is, satisfying $-\Delta \varphi_\lambda = \lambda \varphi_\lambda$. We introduce several observations about the geometry of its vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Bogdan Georgiev , Mayukh Mukherjee

We study of the directional distribution function of nodal lines for eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a planar domain. This quantity counts the number of points where the normal to the nodal line points in a given direction. We give upper…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Zeev Rudnick , Igor Wigman

Let $(M, g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold, where g is $C^1$-smooth metric. Consider the sequence of eigenfunctions $u_k$ of the Laplace operator on M. Let $B$ be a ball on $M$. We prove a sharp estimate of the number of nodal domains of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-06 S. Chanillo , A. Logunov , E. Malinnikova , D. Mangoubi

In this paper, we successfully establish a Courant-type nodal domain theorem for both the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem and the closed eigenvalue problem of the Witten-Laplacian. Moreover, we also characterize the properties of the nodal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ruifeng Chen , Jing Mao , Chuanxi Wu

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

We investigate the measure of nodal sets for Robin and Neumann eigenfunctions in the domain and on the boundary of the domain. A polynomial upper bound for the interior nodal sets is obtained for Robin eigenfunctions in the smooth domain.…

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 study the nodal length of random toral Laplace eigenfunctions ("arithmetic random waves") restricted to decreasing domains ("shrinking balls"), all the way down to Planck scale. We find that, up to a natural scaling, for "generic"…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Jacques Benatar , Domenico Marinucci , Igor Wigman

We study the structure of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on quantum graphs, with a particular focus on Morse eigenfunctions via nodal and Neumann domains. Building on Courant-type arguments, we establish upper bounds for the number of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Luís Baptista , Matthias Hofmann

In the present paper several bounds on multiplicities of eigenvalues of the Laplacian operator on surfaces are generalized from the case of either closed surface or simply-connected planar domain to the case of a surface of positive genus…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Aleksandr Berdnikov

According to Courant's theorem, an eigenfunction as\-sociated with the $n$-th eigenvalue $\lambda\_n$ has at most $n$ nodal domains. A footnote in the book of Courant and Hilbert, states that the same assertion is true for any linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Pierre Bérard , Bernard Helffer

We consider the zeros on the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a Neumann eigenfunction $\phi_{\lambda}$ of a real analytic plane domain $\Omega$. We prove that the number of its boundary zeros is $O (\lambda)$ where $-\Delta \phi_{\lambda} =…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-23 John A. Toth , Steve Zelditch

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

We consider the statistics of the number of nodal domains aka nodal counts for eigenfunctions of separable wave equations in arbitrary dimension. We give an explicit expression for the limiting distribution of normalised nodal counts and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sven Gnutzmann , Stylianos Lois

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 study the effects of a domain deformation to the nodal set of Laplacian eigenfunctions when the eigenvalue is degenerate. In particular, we study deformations of a rectangle that perturb one side and how they change the nodal sets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Andrew Lyons