clopen.solutions

Smooth counterexamples to Yau's nodal upper bound in dimensions three and four

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We construct a smooth metric on the three-sphere, arbitrarily close to the round metric in the smooth topology, and a smooth metric on $S^2\times\T^2$ for which sequences of exact real Laplace eigenfunctions have unbounded nodal measure divided by the square root of the eigenvalue. Each sequence belongs to one fixed metric. Thus the upper-bound part of Yau's nodal conjecture fails for smooth metrics in dimensions three and four.

Claims

SOLUTION CLAIMED OP-00723 — Linear growth of interior Steklov nodal volume
Counterexample · fidelity not yet established
SOLUTION CLAIMED OP-00738 — Yau's sharp upper bound for nodal volume
Counterexample · fidelity not yet established

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Paper
math @ 1581d4c, build/paper.tex ↗
Posted on GitHub
6 October 2026

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