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The paper studies eigenfunctions and nodal sets of the Witten-Laplacian.

We use persistent homology along with the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian to study similarity amongst triangulated 2-manifolds. Our method relies on studying the lower-star filtration induced by the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian. This gives us a shape descriptor that inherits the rich information encoded in the eigen…

Study eigenfunctions of Laplacian on sphere with even point removals.

In this paper, we study eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of $p$-Laplacians with Dirichlet boundary condition on graphs. We characterize the first eigenfunction (and the maximum eigenfunction for a bipartite graph) via the sign condition. By the uniqueness of the first eigenfunction of $p$-Laplacian, as $p\to 1,$ we ident…

Improved bounds for eigenfunctions on hyperbolic surfaces found.

We give an upper bound for the $(n-1)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the critical set of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on compact analytic Riemannian manifolds. This is the analog of H. Donnely and C. Fefferman result on nodal set of eigenfunctions.

Researchers create metrics for Laplacian eigenfunctions with specific zero sets.

We study concentration phenomena of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on closed Riemannian manifolds. We prove that the volume measure of a closed manifold concentrates around nodal sets of eigenfunctions exponentially. Applying the method of Colding and Minicozzi we also prove restricted exponential concentration inequa…

The paper explores inequalities between eigenvalues on Riemannian manifolds.

The paper derives inequalities for eigenvalues and eigenfunction norms on manifolds.

Study magnetic Laplacians on hyperbolic surfaces, revealing three regimes of eigenfunction behavior.

The space forms, the complex hyperbolic spaces and the quaternionic hyperbolic spaces are characterized as the harmonic manifolds with specific radial eigenfunctions of the Laplacian.

New inequality for eigenfunctions on curved spaces.

Eigenfunction maxima inside high-d nodal domains.

Sub-Riemannian spectral distance defined using eigenfunctions of sub-Laplacian

The metric is quite singular at infinity and it is not complete. Using these expansions, we have a more precise description of the asymptotic behavior of quasi-harmonic functions and of eigenfunctions of drift-Laplacian at infinity.

Paper proves super log-concavity of first eigenfunction for certain hyperbolic domains.

Let us fix two different radial eigenfunctions of a hyperbolic Laplacian and assume that both of them have the same value at the origin. Both eigenvalues can be complex numbers. The main goal of this paper is to estimate the lower bound for the interval (0,T], where these two eigenfunctions must assume different values…

In this paper we continue our study of the Laplacian on manifolds with axial analytic asymptotically cylindrical ends initiated in~arXiv:1003.2538. By using the complex scaling method and the Phragmén-Lindelöf principle we prove exponential decay of the eigenfunctions corresponding to the non-threshold eigenvalues of t…

New contractible domains on half-sphere with constant boundary Laplacian eigenfunctions.

Confirms unique eigenfunction in hyperbolic packing has maximal spectral gap.

The paper studies biharmonic functions and bi-eigenfunctions on spheres and model spaces.

We investigate, for the Laplacian operator, the existence and nonexistence of eigenfunctions of eigenvalue between zero and the first eigenvalue of the hyperbolic space H^n, for unbounded domains of H^n. If a domain is contained in a horoball, we prove that there is no positive bounded eigenfunction that vanishes on th…

The paper explores eigenfunctions of spherical conical metrics using harmonic maps to spheres.

The paper finds minimum Steklov eigenvalues on combinatorial graphs.

To study the regularity of heat flow, Lin-Wang[1] introduced the quasi-harmonic sphere, which is a harmonic map from $M=(\mathbb{R}^m,e^{-\frac{|x|^2}{2(m-2)}}ds_0^2)$ to $N$ with finite energy. Here $ds_0^2$ is Euclidean metric in $\mathbb{R}^m$. Ding-Zhao [2] showed that if the target is a sphere, any equivariant qua…

Method extends eigenfunction construction to non-symmetric spaces.

In this paper we consider the problem of prescribing the nodal set of low-energy eigenfunctions of the Laplacian. Our main result is that, given any separating closed hypersurface Σin a compact n-manifold M, there is a Riemannian metric on M such that the nodal set of its first nontrivial eigenfunction is Σ. We present…

We use a weighted variant of the frequency functions introduced by Almgren to prove sharp asymptotic estimates for almost eigenfunctions of the drift Laplacian associated to the Gaussian weight on an asymptotically conical end. As a consequence, we obtain a purely elliptic proof of a result of L. Wang on the uniqueness…

In a Hadamard manifold $M$, it is proved that if $u$ is a $λ$-eigenfunction of the Laplacian that belongs to $L^p(M)$ for some $p \ge 2$, then $u$ is bounded and $\|u\|_{\infty} \le C \|u\|_p,$ where $C$ depends only on $p$, $λ$ and on the dimension of $M$. This result is obtained in the more general context of a compl…

The purpose of this note is to give details for an argument of Sullivan to construct eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold using exit times of Brownian motion \cite{sullivanpos}. Let $X$ be a complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold of pinched negative sectional curvature. Let $λ_1 = λ_1(X) < 0…

Paper connects probability density cuts to graph theory eigenfunctions.

Researchers find second-order estimates for $p$-Laplacian in RCD spaces.

In this paper, we determine the solitonic decomposition of a Fano toric manifold by computing eigenfunctions of solitonic complex Laplacian operator.

Log-concavity of eigenfunctions on curved surfaces is proven, leading to fundamental gap estimates.

Jakobson and Nadirashvili \cite{JN} constructed a sequence of eigenfunctions on $T^2$ with a bounded number of critical points, answering in the negative the question raised by Yau \cite{Yau1} which asks that whether the number of the critical points of eigenfunctions for the Laplacian increases with the corresponding …

Discrete Laplacians defined for spherical and hyperbolic surfaces.

Sharp uncertainty principle for nodal sets in singular spaces.

Proves existence of eigenvalue and eigenfunction for complex Monge-Ampère operator.

We define and study isoparametric submanifolds of general ambient spaces and of arbitrary codimension. In particular we study their behaviour with respect to Riemannian submersions and their lift into a Hilbert space. These results are used to prove a Chevalley type restriction theorem which relates by restriction eige…

We prove that, given any knot $γ$ in a compact 3-manifold M, there exists a Riemannian metric on M such that there is a complex-valued eigenfunction u of the Laplacian, corresponding to the first nontrivial eigenvalue, whose nodal set $u^{-1}(0)$ has a connected component given by $γ$. Higher dimensional analogs of thi…

We present a riemannian structure on the disk that has a remarkably rich structure. Geodesics are hypocycloids and the (negative of the) laplacian has integer spectrum with multiplicity the Dirichlet divisor function. Eigenfunctions of the laplacian are orthogonal polynomials naturally suited to the analysis of acousti…

New nodal domain theorems for symmetric matrices via signed graphs.

For the spherical Laplacian on the sphere and for the Dirichlet Laplacian in the square}, Antonie Stern claimed in her PhD thesis (1924) the existence of an infinite sequence of eigenvalues whose corresponding eigenspaces contain an eigenfunction with exactly two nodal domains. These results were given complete proofs …

Generic metrics on manifolds yield simple Steklov eigenvalues and Morse boundary functions.

This paper is concerned with the location of nodal sets of eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet Laplacian in thin tubular neighbourhoods of hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension. In the limit when the radius of the neighbourhood tends to zero, it is known that spectral properties of the Laplacian are a…

Any closed, connected Riemannian manifold $M$ can be smoothly embedded by its Laplacian eigenfunction maps into $\mathbb{R}^m$ for some $m$. We call the smallest such $m$ the maximal embedding dimension of $M$. We show that the maximal embedding dimension of $M$ is bounded from above by a constant depending only on the…

Study on linear independence of Poincaré series for anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds.