Nikolay Filonov, Michael Levitin, Iosif Polterovich, David A. Sher
We prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian on annular domains. Our approach builds upon and extends the methods we previously developed for disks and balls. It combines variational bounds, estimates of Bessel phase functions, refined lattice point counting techniques and a rigorous computer-assisted analysis. As a by-product, we also derive a two-term upper bound for the Dirichlet eigenvalue counting function of the disk, improving upon Pólya's original estimate.
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The main goal of this paper is to establish the higher dimensional Nevanlinna theory in tropical geometry. We first develop a theory of tropical meromorphic functions (tropical holomorphic maps) in several real variables, such as the proximity function, counting function and characteristic function, the first main theorem, higher dimensional tropical versions of the logarithmic derivative lemmas. Based on this, for algebraically non-degenerate tropical holomorphic maps