Coarse nodal counts on sub-Riemannian manifolds

2026/08/02 by Irene Silvestre-Roselló, Vukašin Stojisavljević
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arxiv created 2026/08/02 · arxiv updated 2026/08/04

Abstract

We study coarse topology of nodal sets of linear combinations of eigenfunctions of sub-Laplacians. More precisely, we prove coarse versions of Courant's and Bézout's theorems for linear combinations of eigenfunctions of sub-Laplacians on compact nilmanifolds obtained as quotients of stratified groups. We conjecture the extensions of these results to general closed equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds and outline a programme for proving them. The method we use combines topological persistence and anisotropic Sobolev theory of Hörmander vector fields, generalizing the ideas which have recently been implemented in the Riemannian case.

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