Sharp bounds for the intersection of nodal lines with certain curves
Let be a hyperbolic surface and let be a Laplacian eigenfunction having eigenvalue with . Let be the set of nodal lines of . For a fixed analytic curve of finite length, we study the number of intersections between and in terms of . When is compact and a geodesic circle, or when has finite volume and is a closed horocycle, we prove that is “good” in the sense of [TZ]. As a result, we obtain that the number of intersections between and is . This bound is sharp.