文摘
We study the nodal set of the Steklov eigenfunctions on the boundary of a smooth bounded domain in \(\mathbb {R}^n\)- the eigenfunctions of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Under the assumption that the domain \(\Omega \) is \(C^2\), we prove a doubling property for the eigenfunction \(u\). We estimate the Hausdorff \(\mathcal H^{n-2}\)-measure of the nodal set of \(u|_{\partial \Omega }\) in terms of the eigenvalue \(\lambda \) as \(\lambda \) grows to infinity. In case that the domain \(\Omega \) is analytic, we prove a polynomial bound O(\(\lambda ^6\)). Our arguments, which make heavy use of Almgren’s frequency functions, are built on the previous works [Garofalo and Lin, Commun Pure Appl Math 40(3):347-66, 1987; Lin, Commun Pure Appl Math 44(3):287-08, 1991]. Mathematics Subject Classification Primary 35P99 Secondary 35B05 35J05 35S05 47A75