Almost Sure GOE Fluctuations of Energy Levels for Hyperbolic Surfaces of High Genus

Zeév Rudnick, Igor Wigman*

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Abstract

We study the variance of a linear statistic of the Laplace eigenvalues on a hyperbolic surface, when the surface varies over the moduli space of all surfaces of fixed genus, sampled at random according to the Weil–Petersson measure. The ensemble variance of the linear statistic was recently shown to coincide with that of the corresponding statistic in the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE) of random matrix theory, in the double limit of first taking large genus and then shrinking size of the energy window. In this note, we show that in this same limit, the (smooth) energy variance for a typical surface is close to the GOE result, a feature called “ergodicity” in the random matrix theory literature.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2279-2291
Number of pages13
JournalAnnales Henri Poincare
Volume26
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2025

Funding

FundersFunder number
European Research Council
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme786758
National Natural Science Foundation of China3109/23

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