Computing nodal deficiency with a refined Dirichlet-to-Neumann map
arXiv:2201.06667 · doi:10.1007/s12220-022-00984-2
Abstract
Recent work of the authors and their collaborators has uncovered fundamental connections between the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, the spectral flow of a certain family of self-adjoint operators, and the nodal deficiency of a Laplacian eigenfunction (or an analogous deficiency associated to a non-bipartite equipartition). Using a refined construction of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, we strengthen all of these results, in particular getting improved bounds on the nodal deficiency of degenerate eigenfunctions. Our framework is very general, allowing for non-bipartite partitions, non-simple eigenvalues, and non-smooth nodal sets. Consequently, the results can be used in the general study of spectral minimal partitions, not just nodal partitions of generic Laplacian eigenfunctions.
arXiv comment23 pages; comments welcome
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