Hausdorff measure bounds for nodal sets of Steklov eigenfunctions

Abstract

We study nodal sets of Steklov eigenfunctions in a bounded domain with ${\mathcal{𝒞}}^2$ boundary. Our first result is a lower bound for the Hausdorff measure of the nodal set: we show that, for $u_{\lambda }$ a Steklov eigenfunction with eigenvalue $\lambda \ne 0$, we have ${\mathcal{\mathscr{H}}}^{d-1}(\{u_{\lambda }=0\})\ge c_{\mathrm{\Omega }}$, where $c_{\mathrm{\Omega }}$ is independent of $\lambda$. We also prove an almost sharp upper bound, namely, ${\mathcal{\mathscr{H}}}^{d-1}(\{u_{\lambda }=0\})\le C_{\mathrm{\Omega }}\lambda \log <!--FUNCTION\; APPLICATION-->(\lambda +e)$.