Robert Strichartz

  1. Spectral analysis on infinite Sierpinski fractafolds.

    Authors: Alexander Teplyaev, Robert Strichartz
    Subjects: Functional Analysis
    Abstract

    A fractafold, a space that is locally modeled on a specified fractal, is the
    fractal equivalent of a manifold. For compact fractafolds based on the
    Sierpinski gasket, it was shown by the first author how to compute the discrete
    spectrum of the Laplacian in terms of the spectrum of a finite graph Laplacian.
    A similar problem was solved by the second author for the case of infinite
    blowups of a Sierpinski gasket, where spectrum is pure point of infinite
    multiplicity. Both works used the method of spectral decimations to obtain
    explicit description of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.

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