Nadirashvili's universal nodal measure lower-bound conjecture

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Let uu be a harmonic function in B(0,1)⊂RnB(0,1)\subset\mathbb{R}^n with u(0)=0u(0)=0, and let Z(u)Z(u) denote its nodal set. Nadirashvili's lower-bound conjecture. There exists a universal constant δ>0\delta>0 such that

Hn−1(Z(u)∩B(0,1))≥δ.\mathcal{H}^{n-1}(Z(u)\cap B(0,1))\geq\delta.

This weaker-form conjecture supplies a universal lower bound for the nodal measure of a harmonic function vanishing at the center and is related in the source to a generalized Harnack inequality. The source does not state whether it has been resolved.

References

Primary source

Jiahuan Li, Junyuan Wang and Zhichen Ying, “Nadirashvili' Conjecture for Elliptic PDEs and its Applications”, arXiv:2508.07861 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1903.10619.

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