A geometric covering lemma and nodal sets of eigenfunctions
A geometric covering lemma and nodal sets of eigenfunctions
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2011
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通讯作者:
G. Lu
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X. Han;G. Lu
Abstract. The main purpose of this paper is two-fold. On one hand, we prove a sharpercovering lemma in Euclidean space R n for all n ≥ 2 (see Theorem 1.5). On the otherhand, we apply this covering lemma to improve existing results for BMO and volumeestimates of nodal sets for eigenfunctions u satisfying 4u + λu = 0 on n-dimensionalRiemannian manifolds when λ is large (see Theorems 1.7, 1.8). We also improve theBMO estimates for the function q = |∇u| 2 + λn u 2 (see Theorem 1.10). Our coveringlemma sharpens substantially earlier results and is fairly close to the optimal one we canexpect (Conjecture 1.6). 1. IntroductionLet M be a smooth, compact and connected Riemannian manifold without bound-ary. Let 4 denote the Laplacian on M. Assume throughout this paper that u is thesolution to 4u + λu = 0, λ > 1, i.e., u is an eigenfunction with eigenvalue λ. Thenodal set N of u is defined to be the set of points x ∈ M where u(x) = 0. Then out-side the singular set S = {x|u(x) = 0,∇u(x) = 0}, N is a regular (n−1)-dimensionalsubmanifold of M. The main focus of the current paper concerns a geometric cover-ing lemma in the Euclidean space R