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Asymptotics of the first nodal line. (English) Zbl 0872.35006

Summary: We announce the result that the first nodal line of a convex planar domain tends to a straight line as the eccentricity tends to infinity.

MSC:

35B05 Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs
35P05 General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs
35J05 Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation