On Courant and Pleijel theorems for sub-Riemannian Laplacians

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Frank, Rupert L., Helffer, Bernard
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866917652654456832
author Frank, Rupert L.
Helffer, Bernard
author_facet Frank, Rupert L.
Helffer, Bernard
contents We are interested in the number of nodal domains of eigenfunctions of sub-Laplacians on sub-Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we investigate the validity of Pleijel's theorem, which states that, as soon as the dimension is strictly larger than 1, the number of nodal domains of an eigenfunction corresponding to the k-th eigenvalue is strictly (and uniformly, in a certain sense) smaller than k for large k. In the first part of this paper we reduce this question from the case of general sub-Riemannian manifolds to that of nilpotent groups. In the second part, we analyze in detail the case where the nilpotent group is a Heisenberg group times a Euclidean space. Along the way we improve known bounds on the optimal constants in the Faber-Krahn and isoperimetric inequalities on these groups.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2402_13953
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle On Courant and Pleijel theorems for sub-Riemannian Laplacians
Frank, Rupert L.
Helffer, Bernard
Spectral Theory
Analysis of PDEs
We are interested in the number of nodal domains of eigenfunctions of sub-Laplacians on sub-Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we investigate the validity of Pleijel's theorem, which states that, as soon as the dimension is strictly larger than 1, the number of nodal domains of an eigenfunction corresponding to the k-th eigenvalue is strictly (and uniformly, in a certain sense) smaller than k for large k. In the first part of this paper we reduce this question from the case of general sub-Riemannian manifolds to that of nilpotent groups. In the second part, we analyze in detail the case where the nilpotent group is a Heisenberg group times a Euclidean space. Along the way we improve known bounds on the optimal constants in the Faber-Krahn and isoperimetric inequalities on these groups.
title On Courant and Pleijel theorems for sub-Riemannian Laplacians
topic Spectral Theory
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13953