Geodesic nets via eigenvalue optimisation
Abstract
We explore a connection between geodesic nets and quantum graphs optimising certain functionals from spectral theory. For surfaces, critical metrics for the normalised kth eigenvalue of the Laplacian give rise to isometric minimal immersions to a unit sphere. In this spirit we obtain geodesic nets from optimal quantum graphs, and obstructions to the existence of critical metrics.
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