HOMOTOPIES OF EIGENFUNCTIONS AND THE SPECTRUM OF THE LAPLACIAN ON THE SIERPINSKI CARPET

Autor:	Robert S. Strichartz, Steven Heilman
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Combinatorics Sierpinski carpet Euclidean space Applied Mathematics Modeling and Simulation Analysis on fractals Bounded function Spectrum (functional analysis) Geometry and Topology Laplace operator Eigenvalues and eigenvectors Square (algebra) Mathematics
Zdroj:	Fractals. 18:1-34
ISSN:	1793-6543 0218-348X
DOI:	10.1142/s0218348x10004750
Popis:	Consider a family of bounded domains Ωt in the plane (or more generally any Euclidean space) that depend analytically on the parameter t, and consider the ordinary Neumann Laplacian Δt on each of them. Then we can organize all the eigenfunctions into continuous families [Formula: see text] with eigenvalues [Formula: see text] also varying continuously with t, although the relative sizes of the eigenvalues will change with t at crossings where [Formula: see text]. We call these families homotopies of eigenfunctions. We study two explicit examples. The first example has Ω0 equal to a square and Ω1 equal to a circle; in both cases the eigenfunctions are known explicitly, so our homotopies connect these two explicit families. In the second example we approximate the Sierpinski carpet starting with a square, and we continuously delete subsquares of varying sizes. (Data available in full at ).
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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