Shannon sampling and Weak Weyl's Law on compact Riemannian manifolds
Isaac Z. Pesenson

TL;DR
This paper connects Weyl's asymptotic formula with Shannon sampling theory on compact Riemannian manifolds, showing that eigenvalue counts are comparable to sampling set cardinalities for bandlimited functions.
Contribution
It provides a direct proof linking eigenvalue distribution to sampling set cardinality on Riemannian manifolds, bridging spectral theory and sampling theory.
Findings
Eigenvalue count $\\mathcal{N}_{\omega}$ is comparable to sampling set cardinality.
Establishes a Shannon-type sampling framework on Riemannian manifolds.
Provides a new perspective on Weyl's law via sampling theory.
Abstract
The well known Weyl's asymptotic formula gives an approximation to the number of eigenvalues (counted with multiplicities) on an interval of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact Riemannian manifold . In this paper we approach this question from the point of view of Shannon-type sampling on compact Riemannian manifolds. Namely, we give a direct proof that is comparable to cardinality of certain sampling sets for the subspace of -bandlimited functions on .
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Shannon sampling and Weak Weyl’s Law on compact Riemannian manifolds
Isaac Z. Pesenson
Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Abstract.
The well known Weyl’s asymptotic formula gives an approximation to the number of eigenvalues (counted with multiplicities) on an interval of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact Riemannian manifold . In this paper we approach this question from the point of view of Shannon-type sampling on compact Riemannian manifolds. Namely, we give a direct proof that is comparable to cardinality of certain sampling sets for the subspace of -bandlimited functions on .
1. Introduction
1.1. Objectives
Spectral geometry concerned with questions which relate spectral properties of operators acting in function spaces on a Riemannian manifold and the geometry of the underlying manifold. One of the most famous results of such kind is the Weyl’s asymptotic formula for the number of eigenvalues of an elliptic (pseudo-)differential operator on a compact Riemannian manifold. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that in the case of a general compact Riemannian manifold the so-called weak Weyl’s formula closely relates to cardinality of certain sampling sets for bandlimited functions. This fact was first noticed in [4].
1.2. Weyl’s asymptotic formula on compact Riemannian manifolds
Let be a compact connected Riemannian manifold without boundary and is the Laplace-Beltrami operator. It is given in a local coordinate system by the formula [2]
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where are components of the metric tensor, is the determinant of the matrix , components of the matrix inverse to . The operator is second-order differential self-adjoint and non-negative in the space constructed with respect to Riemannian measure. Domains of the powers coincide with the Sobolev spaces . Since is a second-order differential self-adjoint and non-negative definite operator on a compact connected Riemannian manifold it has a discrete spectrum which goes to infinity without any accumulation points and there exists a complete family of orthonormal eigenfunctions which form a basis in [2].
We will need the following definitions.
Definition 1**.**
The space of -bandlimited functions is defined as the span of all eigenfunctions of whose eigenvalues are not greater than The dimension of the subspace will be denoted as .
One can easily verify that belongs to if and only if the following Bernstein type inequality holds
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for all natural .
Definition 2**.**
We say that is a metric -lattice if
- (1)
Balls are disjoint
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but balls form a cover of . 2. (2)
There exists a constant such that multiplicity of all such covers is bounded by .
One can show [3], [5] existence of metric lattices for sufficiently small . We reprove this fact in Lemma 2.1 below. Note that is the same as the number of eigenvalues (counting with their multiplicities) which are not greater . According to the Weyl’s asymptotic formula [2] one has for large
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where and is a constant which is independent on . To reveal meaning of the right-hand side of this formula let’s rewrite it in the following form
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Since in the case of a Riemannian manifold of dimension all the balls of the same radius have essentially the same volume the last fraction can be interpreted as a number of balls whose centers form a lattice .
The main goal of our paper is to present a direct proof of the following Theorem 1.1 (which we call the Weak Weyl’s Law) without using the Weyl’s asymptotic formula (1.2).
Theorem 1.1**.**
(Weak Weyl’s Law) In the case of a Riemannian manifold the number of eigenvalues of in counting with their multiplicities is equivalent to a number of points in a metric lattice Namely, there are constants and
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such that for all sufficiently large the following double inequality holds
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where is taken over all -lattices and is taken over all -lattices and denotes cardinality of a lattice.
2. Covering Lemma
We consider a compact Riemannian manifold with metric tensor . It is known that the Laplace-Beltrami operator which is defined in (1.1) is a self-adjoint positive definite operator in the corresponding space constructed from . Domains of the powers coincide with the Sobolev spaces . To choose norms on spaces we consider a finite cover of by balls where is the center of the ball and is its radius. For a partition of unity subordinate to the family we introduce Sobolev space as the completion of with respect to the norm
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The regularity Theorem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator states that the norm (1.1) is equivalent to the graph norm .
The volume of a ball will be denoted by Let us note that in the case of a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension there exist constants such that for a ball of sufficiently small radius and any center one has
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where
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The inequality (2.2) implies the next inequality with the same and :
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where are any two points in and is the injectivity radius of the manifold. Since is compact there exists a constant such that for any the following inequality holds true
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In what follows we will use the notation
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The following Covering Lemma plays an important role for the paper.
Lemma 2.1**.**
If satisfy the above assumptions then for any there exists a finite set of points such that
1) balls are disjoint,
2) balls form a cover of ,
3) multiplicity of the cover by balls is not greater
Proof.
Let us choose a family of disjoint balls such that there is no ball which has empty intersections with all balls from our family. Then the family is a cover of . Every ball from the family , that has non-empty intersection with a particular ball is contained in the ball . Since any two balls from the family are disjoint, it gives the following estimate for the index of multiplicity of the cover :
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From here, according to (2.4) we obtain
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∎
3. Sampling sets for bandlimited functions and the upper estimate on the number of eigenvalues.
3.1. Poincare-type inequality on manifolds
One can prove the following Poincare type inequality (see [3], [5]). We sketch it’s proof for completeness.
Theorem 3.1**.**
There exists a constant such that if is sufficiently small then for all lattices and all
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Proof.
Let be a -admissible set and the partition of unity from (1.1). For any , every fixed and every
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where By using the Sobolev embedding Theorem one can prove the following inequality
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where It allows the following estimation of the second term in (3.2).
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Next, to estimate the third term in (3.2) we use the Schwartz inequality and the assumption
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We integrate both sides of this inequality over the ball using the spherical coordinate system
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Next, for and ,
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where since and Since balls cover the manifold and the cover by has a finite multiplicity the summation over all balls gives
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Using this inequality and the regularity theorem for Laplace-Beltrami operator we obtain
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For the self-adjoint for any we have the following interpolation inequality
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Because in the last inequality we are free to choose any we are coming to our main claim. ∎
3.2. Sampling sets for bandlimited functions and the upper estimate on the number of eigenvalues.
Now, if a bandlimited function belongs to the Bernstein inequality implies
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If is the same as in (3.1) and we pick a such for which
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we can move the second term on the right side in (3.1) to the left to obtain following Plancherel-Polya-type inequality which shows that in the spaces of bandlimited functions the regular norm is controlled by a discrete one (in fact, they are equivalent).
Theorem 3.2**.**
There exists a and there exists a constant such that for any , every metric -lattice with the following inequality holds true
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for all .
Corollary 3.1**.**
There exists a such that for every and every metric -lattice with the set is a sampling set for the space .
In other words, every function is uniquely determined by its values and can be reconstructed from this set of values in a stable way.
Since dimension of the space cannot be bigger than cardinality of a sampling set for this space we obtain the following statement.
Corollary 3.2**.**
There exists a such that for any
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where is the number of points in a lattice and is taken over all such lattices.
4. The lower estimate
4.1. Kernels on compact Riemannian manifolds
Let be the positive square root of a second order differential elliptic self-adjoint nonnegative operator in . For any measurable bounded function and any one defines a bounded operator by the formula
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where and
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The function is known as the kernel of the operator .
We will need the following lemma.
Lemma 4.1**.**
If and both of them are bounded and have sufficiently fast decay at infinity then for any and .
Proof.
Assume that and that both of them are bounded and have bounded supports . Clearly, , where is not negative. By (4.2) we have
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where each term is non-negative. The lemma is proven.
∎
We are going to make use of the heat kernel
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which is associated with the heat semigroup generated by the self-adjoint operator :
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Note, that in notations (4.1), (4.2)
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It is well known that in the case of a compact Riemannian manifold this kernel obeys the following short-time Gaussian estimates:
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where , and every constant depends on .
4.2. The lower estimate
We now sketch the proof of the opposite estimate by comparing to the number of eigenvalues (counted with multiplicities) in the interval .
Inequalities (2.3) in conjunction with (4.3) it gives for
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Lemma 4.2**.**
There exist constants such that for all sufficiently large
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Proof.
First, we note that using the right-hand side of (4.4), Lemma 4.1 and the inequality
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we obtain
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To prove the left-had side of (4.5) consider the inequality
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which implies
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where
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being the kernel of the operator and
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being the kernel of the operator . In conjunction with (4.3) it gives
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Note, that according to (2.4) if and is sufficiently small then
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Next, given and we pick such that
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The inequality (4.9) and the condition (4.10) imply
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and
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Thus according to (4.11), (4.2) and (4.2) we obtain that for a certain constant
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Using (4.2), (4.10), and (4.12) we obtain that for a certain constant
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Since
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one has that there are positive constants such that for all sufficiently large and
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where expression in parentheses is positive for sufficiently large . It proves the left-had side of (4.5).
∎
We apply this lemma when to obtain the following inequality for sufficiently large :
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One has
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and thanks to (2.3) we also have
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Now, the inequality (4.14) shows that for every sufficiently large and every -lattice the following inequalities hold true
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Since
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we receive the inequality
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for a certain . Thus there exists an such that
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where is the number of points in a lattice and is taken over all such lattices. The inequalities (3.5) and (4.16) prove Theorem 1.1.
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