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LOCALIZED EIGENFUNCTIONS OF THE LAPLACIAN ON p.c.f. SELF-SIMILAR SETS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1997

MARTIN T. BARLOW  and
JUN KIGAMI
MARTIN T. BARLOW
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2, Canada. E-mail address; [email protected]
JUN KIGAMI
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan. E-mail address: [email protected]
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Abstract

In this paper we consider the form of the eigenvalue counting function ρ for Laplacians on p.c.f. self-similar sets, a class of self-similar fractal spaces. It is known that on a p.c.f. self-similar set K the function ρ(x)=O(xds/2) as x→∞, for some ds>0. We show that if there exist localized eigenfunctions (that is, a non-zero eigenfunction which vanishes on some open subset of the space) and K satisfies some additional conditions (‘the lattice case’) then ρ(x)x−ds/2 does not converge as x→∞. We next establish a number of sufficient conditions for the existence of a localized eigenfunction in terms of the symmetries of the space K. In particular, we show that any nested fractal with more than two essential fixed points has localized eigenfunctions.

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Journal of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , October 1997 , pp. 320 - 332
Copyright
The London Mathematical Society 1997

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Footnotes

This research was partly supported by an NSERC of Canada grant.