Nodal sets of Schrödinger eigenfunctions in forbidden regions

2015/02/03 by Yaiza Canzani, Canzani, Yaiza, John Toth +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Spectral Theory (math.SP) #math-ph #math.AP #math.MP #math.SP

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1502.00732

arxiv created 2015/02/03 · arxiv updated 2015/02/04

Abstract

This note concerns the nodal sets of eigenfunctions of semiclassical Schrödinger operators acting on compact, smooth, Riemannian manifolds, with no boundary. We prove that if H is a separating hypersurface that lies inside the classically forbidden region, then H cannot persist as a component of the zero set of infinitely many eigenfunctions. In addition, on real analytic surfaces, we obtain sharp upper bounds for the number of intersections of the zero sets of the Schrödinger eigenfunctions with a fixed curve that lies inside the classically forbidden region.

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