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Numerical simulations for nodal domainsand spectral minimal partitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2008

Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël ,
Bernard Helffer  and
Gregory Vial
Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël
Affiliation:
IRMAR, ENS Cachan Bretagne, CNRS, UEB, avenue Robert Schuman, 35170 Bruz, France. Virginie.Bonnaillie@bretagne.ens-cachan.fr; Gregory.Vial@bretagne.ens-cachan.fr
Bernard Helffer
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Bâtiment 425, Université Paris-Sud et CNRS, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. Bernard.Helffer@math.u-psud.fr
Gregory Vial
Affiliation:
IRMAR, ENS Cachan Bretagne, CNRS, UEB, avenue Robert Schuman, 35170 Bruz, France. Virginie.Bonnaillie@bretagne.ens-cachan.fr; Gregory.Vial@bretagne.ens-cachan.fr
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Abstract

We recall here some theoretical results of Helffer et al. [Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire (2007) doi:10.1016/j.anihpc.2007.07.004] about minimal partitions and propose numerical computations to check some of their published or unpublished conjectures and exhibit new ones.

Keywords

Eigenmodes of Laplace operatorminimal partitionsnodal domainsfinite element method

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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 221 - 246
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2008

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