Pólya's conjecture for Euclidean balls

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Hauptverfasser: Filonov, Nikolay, Levitin, Michael, Polterovich, Iosif, Sher, David A.
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author Filonov, Nikolay
Levitin, Michael
Polterovich, Iosif
Sher, David A.
author_facet Filonov, Nikolay
Levitin, Michael
Polterovich, Iosif
Sher, David A.
contents The celebrated Pólya's conjecture (1954) in spectral geometry states that the eigenvalue counting functions of the Dirichlet and Neumann Laplacian on a bounded Euclidean domain can be estimated from above and below, respectively, by the leading term of Weyl's asymptotics. Pólya's conjecture is known to be true for domains which tile Euclidean space, and, in addition, for some special domains in higher dimensions. In this paper, we prove Pólya's conjecture for the disk, making it the first non-tiling planar domain for which the conjecture is verified. We also confirm Pólya's conjecture for arbitrary planar sectors, and, in the Dirichlet case, for balls of any dimension. Along the way, we develop the known links between the spectral problems in the disk and certain lattice counting problems. A key novel ingredient is the observation, made in recent work of the last named author, that the corresponding eigenvalue and lattice counting functions are related not only asymptotically, but in fact satisfy certain uniform bounds. Our proofs are purely analytic, except for a rigorous computer-assisted argument needed to cover the short interval of values of the spectral parameter in the case of the Neumann problem in the disk.
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spellingShingle Pólya's conjecture for Euclidean balls
Filonov, Nikolay
Levitin, Michael
Polterovich, Iosif
Sher, David A.
Spectral Theory
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Number Theory
35P15 (Primary) 35P20, 33C10, 11P21 (Secondary)
The celebrated Pólya's conjecture (1954) in spectral geometry states that the eigenvalue counting functions of the Dirichlet and Neumann Laplacian on a bounded Euclidean domain can be estimated from above and below, respectively, by the leading term of Weyl's asymptotics. Pólya's conjecture is known to be true for domains which tile Euclidean space, and, in addition, for some special domains in higher dimensions. In this paper, we prove Pólya's conjecture for the disk, making it the first non-tiling planar domain for which the conjecture is verified. We also confirm Pólya's conjecture for arbitrary planar sectors, and, in the Dirichlet case, for balls of any dimension. Along the way, we develop the known links between the spectral problems in the disk and certain lattice counting problems. A key novel ingredient is the observation, made in recent work of the last named author, that the corresponding eigenvalue and lattice counting functions are related not only asymptotically, but in fact satisfy certain uniform bounds. Our proofs are purely analytic, except for a rigorous computer-assisted argument needed to cover the short interval of values of the spectral parameter in the case of the Neumann problem in the disk.
title Pólya's conjecture for Euclidean balls
topic Spectral Theory
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Number Theory
35P15 (Primary) 35P20, 33C10, 11P21 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07696