The full-support eigenfunction conjecture for compact metric graphs

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Let G\mathcal{G} be a compact, connected metric graph. The Laplacian on G\mathcal{G} has natural vertex conditions, and an eigenfunction is said to have full support if it does not vanish identically on any edge. For an eigenfunction ψn\psi_n, let ∣{ψn≠0}∣|\{\psi_n\neq 0\}| denote the total length of the edges on which it is not identically zero, and let ∣G∣|\mathcal{G}| be the total length of the graph.

Full-support eigenfunction conjecture. There exists a choice of eigenfunctions ψn\psi_n forming an orthonormal basis of L2(G)L^2(\mathcal{G}) and a subsequence (nk)⊂N(n_k)\subset\mathbb{N} such that no ψnk\psi_{n_k} vanishes identically on any edge of G\mathcal{G}. Equivalently,

1∈acc⁡{∣{ψn≠0}∣∣G∣:n∈N}.1\in\operatorname{acc}\left\{\frac{|\{\psi_n\neq 0\}|}{|\mathcal{G}|}:n\in\mathbb{N}\right\}.

The conjecture would imply that, for every compact connected metric graph, one can choose natural-Laplacian eigenfunctions with nodal-domain ratios having limit superior equal to 11.

References

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Matthias Hofmann, James B. Kennedy, Delio Mugnolo and Marvin Plümer, “On Pleijel's nodal domain theorem for quantum graphs”, arXiv:2012.05808 (2020).

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