{ "id": "math/9801090", "version": "v3", "published": "1998-01-20T14:06:43.000Z", "updated": "1999-06-02T11:10:14.000Z", "title": "Bounds on the multiplicity of eigenvalues for fixed membranes", "authors": [ "Thomas Hoffman-Ostenhof", "Peter W. Michor", "Nikolai Nadirashvili" ], "comment": "AmSTeX, epsf.tex, 17 encapsulated postscript figures, 17 pages. Third version with minor stylistic improvements", "journal": "Geometric And Functional Analysis (GAFA). Vol. 9 (1999), 1169-1188", "categories": [ "math.AP", "math.DG" ], "abstract": "For a membrane in the plane the multiplicity of the $k$-th eigenvalue is known to be not greater than $2k-1$. Here we prove that it is actually not greater than $2k-3$, for $k\\ge 3$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "1999-06-02T11:10:14.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "35B05", "35P15", "58G25" ], "keywords": [ "fixed membranes", "multiplicity" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "AMS-TeX", "pages": 17, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "1998math......1090H" } } }