Approximating pointwise products of Laplacian eigenfunctions
Approximating pointwise products of Laplacian eigenfunctions
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jfa.2019.05.025
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发表时间:
2018-11
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1.7
通讯作者:
Jianfeng Lu;C. Sogge;S. Steinerberger
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作者:
Jianfeng Lu;C. Sogge;S. Steinerberger
We consider Laplacian eigenfunctions on a d-dimensional bounded domain M (or a d-dimensional compact manifold M) with Dirichlet conditions. These operators give rise to a sequence of eigenfunctions (e ℓ) ℓ∈ N. We study the subspace of all pointwise products A n= span {e i (x) e j (x): 1≤ i, j≤ n}⊆ L 2 (M). Clearly, that vector space has dimension dim (A n)= n (n+ 1)/2. We prove that products e i e j of eigenfunctions are simple in a certain sense: for any ε> 0, there exists a low-dimensional vector space B n that almost contains all products. More precisely, denoting the orthogonal projection Π B n: L 2 (M)→ B n, we have∀ 1≤ i, j≤ n‖ e i e j− Π B n (e i e j)‖ L 2≤ ε and the size of the space dim (B n) is relatively small: for every δ> 0, dim (B n)≲ M, δ ε− δ n 1+ δ. We obtain the same sort of bounds for products of arbitrary length, as well for approximation in H− 1 norm. Pointwise products of eigenfunctions are low-rank. This has implications, among other things, for the validity of fast algorithms in electronic structure computations.