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Generalizing Courant's nodal domain theorem, the "Extended Courant property"is the statement that a linear combination of the first $n$ eigenfunctions hasat most $n$ nodal domains. A related question is to estimate the number ofconnected components of the (super) level sets of a Neumann eigenfunction $u$.Indeed, in this case, the first eigenfunction is constant, and looking at thelevel sets of $u$ amounts to looking at the nodal sets $\{u-a=0\}$, where $a$is a real constant. In the first part of the paper, we prove that the ExtendedCourant property is false for the subequilateral triangle and for regular$N$-gons ($N$ large), with the Neumann boundary condition. More precisely, weprove that there exists a Neumann eigenfunction $u_k$ of the $N$-gon, withlabelling $k$, $4 \le k \le 6$, such that the set $\{u_k \not = 1\}$ has$(N+1)$ connected components. In the second part, we prove that there exists ametric $g$ on $\mathbb{T}^2$ (resp. on $\mathbb{S}^2$), which can be chosenarbitrarily close to the flat metric (resp. round metric), and an eigenfunction$u$ of the associated Laplace-Beltrami operator, such that the set $\{u \not =1\}$ has infinitely many connected components. In particular the ExtendedCourant property is false for these closed surfaces. These results are stronglymotivated by a recent paper by Buhovsky, Logunov and Sodin. As for the positivedirection, in Appendix~B, we prove that the Extended Courant property is truefor the isotropic quantum harmonic oscillator in $\mathbb{R}^2$.

Non-boundedness of the number of super level domains of eigenfunctions