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Courant’s nodal domain theorem for positivity preserving forms

  • Matthias Keller

    Universität Potsdam, Germany

  • Michael Schwarz

    Universität Potsdam, Germany
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Abstract

We introduce a notion of nodal domains for positivity preserving forms. This notion generalizes the classical ones for Laplacians on domains and on graphs. We prove the Courant nodal domain theorem in this generalized setting using purely analytical methods.

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Matthias Keller, Michael Schwarz, Courant’s nodal domain theorem for positivity preserving forms. J. Spectr. Theory 10 (2020), no. 1, pp. 271–309

DOI 10.4171/JST/292