Uniform heat-content conjecture for nodal sets

Let (M,g)(M,g) be a compact smooth manifold without boundary. Let uu be a Laplacian eigenfunction with eigenvalue λ\lambda, and let pt(x)p_t(x) be globally defined with respect to its nodal set, with its restriction to each nodal domain given by the corresponding local function. Uniform heat-content conjecture. There exists a constant c>0c>0 depending only on (M,g)(M,g) such that

pλ1(x)>cfor all xM.p_{\lambda^{-1}}(x)>c\qquad\text{for all }x\in M.

The authors state that this conjecture seems likely but should be extremely difficult; together with heat content isoperimetry at t=λ1t=\lambda^{-1}, it would imply the lower-bound half of Yau's conjecture.

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Stefan Steinerberger, “Lower bounds on nodal sets of eigenfunctions via the heat flow”, arXiv:1301.3371 (2015).

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