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Main Authors: Steinerberger, Stefan, Venkatraman, Raghavendra
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14122
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author Steinerberger, Stefan
Venkatraman, Raghavendra
author_facet Steinerberger, Stefan
Venkatraman, Raghavendra
contents We consider Laplacian eigenfunctions on a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$. Under Neumann boundary conditions, the first eigenfunction is constant and the others have mean value 0. The situation is different for Dirichlet boundary conditions: on `generic' domains, one would expect that every eigenfunction has nonzero mean value. The other extreme is the ball in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where among the first $n$ eigenfunctions only $\sim n^{1/d}$ have a mean value different from zero. We prove that this rate is sharp in \textit{any} smooth domain, up to a logarithmic factor: in any smooth domain~$Ω$, among the first $n$ Dirichlet eigenfunctions at least $ (\log{n})^{-1/2} \cdot n^{1/d} $ have a nonzero mean.
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spellingShingle Dirichlet eigenfunctions with nonzero mean value
Steinerberger, Stefan
Venkatraman, Raghavendra
Analysis of PDEs
Spectral Theory
We consider Laplacian eigenfunctions on a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$. Under Neumann boundary conditions, the first eigenfunction is constant and the others have mean value 0. The situation is different for Dirichlet boundary conditions: on `generic' domains, one would expect that every eigenfunction has nonzero mean value. The other extreme is the ball in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where among the first $n$ eigenfunctions only $\sim n^{1/d}$ have a mean value different from zero. We prove that this rate is sharp in \textit{any} smooth domain, up to a logarithmic factor: in any smooth domain~$Ω$, among the first $n$ Dirichlet eigenfunctions at least $ (\log{n})^{-1/2} \cdot n^{1/d} $ have a nonzero mean.
title Dirichlet eigenfunctions with nonzero mean value
topic Analysis of PDEs
Spectral Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14122