TY - JOUR
T1 - Small Scale Equidistribution of Eigenfunctions on the Torus
AU - Lester, Stephen
AU - Rudnick, Zeév
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - We study the small scale distribution of the L2 mass of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the flat torus Td. Given an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions, we show the existence of a density one subsequence whose L2 mass equidistributes at small scales. In dimension two our result holds all the way down to the Planck scale. For dimensions d = 3, 4 we can restrict to individual eigenspaces and show small scale equidistribution in that context. We also study irregularities of quantum equidistribution: We construct eigenfunctions whose L2 mass does not equidistribute at all scales above the Planck scale. Additionally, in dimension d = 4 we show the existence of eigenfunctions for which the proportion of L2 mass in small balls blows up at certain scales.
AB - We study the small scale distribution of the L2 mass of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the flat torus Td. Given an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions, we show the existence of a density one subsequence whose L2 mass equidistributes at small scales. In dimension two our result holds all the way down to the Planck scale. For dimensions d = 3, 4 we can restrict to individual eigenspaces and show small scale equidistribution in that context. We also study irregularities of quantum equidistribution: We construct eigenfunctions whose L2 mass does not equidistribute at all scales above the Planck scale. Additionally, in dimension d = 4 we show the existence of eigenfunctions for which the proportion of L2 mass in small balls blows up at certain scales.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00220-016-2734-4
DO - 10.1007/s00220-016-2734-4
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AN - SCOPUS:84981170244
SN - 0010-3616
VL - 350
SP - 279
EP - 300
JO - Communications in Mathematical Physics
JF - Communications in Mathematical Physics
IS - 1
ER -