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On the Inner Radius of a Nodal Domain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Dan Mangoubi
Dan Mangoubi*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel e-mail: mangoubi@techunix.technion.ac.il
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Let $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold. We consider the inner radius of a nodal domain for a large eigenvalue $\text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }.$ We give upper and lower bounds on the inner radius of the type $C/{{\lambda }^{\alpha }}{{(\log \lambda )}^{\beta }}.$ Our proof is based on a local behavior of eigenfunctions discovered by Donnelly and Fefferman and a Poincaré type inequality proved by Maz’ya. Sharp lower bounds are known only in dimension two. We give an account of this case too.

Keywords

58J5035P1535P20
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 01 June 2008 , pp. 249 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2008

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