Polynomials on the Sierpiński gasket with respect to different Laplacians which are symmetric and self-similar

Abstract

We study the analogue of polynomials (solutions to $\Delta^{n+1} u =0$ for some $n$) on the Sierpinski gasket ($SG$) with respect to a family of symmetric, self-similar Laplacians constructed by Fang, King, Lee, and Strichartz, extending the work of Needleman, Strichartz, Teplyaev, and Yung on the polynomials with respect to the standard Kigami Laplacian. We define a basis for the space of polynomials, the monomials, characterized by the property that a certain derivative is 1 at one of the boundary points, while all other derivatives vanish, and we compute the values of the monomials at the boundary points of $SG$. We then present some data which suggest surprising relationships between the values of the monomials at the boundary and certain Neumann eigenvalues of the family of symmetric self-similar Laplacians. Surprisingly, the results for the general case are quite different from the results for the Kigami Laplacian.