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A logarithmic improvement in the two-point Weyl law for manifolds without conjugate points

Analysis of PDEs 2022-02-03 v3 Spectral Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we study the two-point Weyl Law for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold MM with no conjugate points. That is, we find the asymptotic behavior of the Schwartz kernel, Eλ(x,y)E_\lambda(x,y), of the projection operator from L2(M)L^2(M) onto the direct sum of eigenspaces with eigenvalue smaller than λ2\lambda^2 as λ\lambda \to\infty. In the regime where x,yx,y are restricted to a compact neighborhood of the diagonal in M×MM\times M, we obtain a uniform logarithmic improvement in the remainder of the asymptotic expansion for EλE_\lambda and its derivatives of all orders, which generalizes a result of B\'erard, who treated the on-diagonal case Eλ(x,x)E_\lambda(x,x). When x,yx,y avoid a compact neighborhood of the diagonal, we obtain this same improvement in an upper bound for EλE_\lambda. Our results imply that the rescaled covariance kernel of a monochromatic random wave locally converges in the CC^\infty topology to a universal scaling limit at an inverse logarithmic rate.

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@article{arxiv.1905.05136,
  title  = {A logarithmic improvement in the two-point Weyl law for manifolds without conjugate points},
  author = {Blake Keeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05136},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages. New version includes minor corrections and a note that the article is to appear in Annales de l'institut Fourier