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Equidistribution of Eigenfunctions of Quantum Cat Maps

Analysis of PDEs 2026-05-08 v1 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP Number Theory Spectral Theory

Abstract

We prove that the short-period eigenfunctions of quantum cat maps constructed by Kim and the author equidistribute on T2\mathbb{T}^2 in the sense of semiclassical measures. We also show that their logarithmically large \ell^\infty-norm is asymptotically concentrated on a bounded number of coordinates. Thus, for this explicit family, strong coordinate localization coexists with semiclassical equidistribution. These results confirm the behavior suggested by earlier numerical evidence of Kim and the author, and contrast with the scarring phenomena for short-period eigenfunctions observed by Faure, Nonnenmacher, and De Bi\`evre.

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@article{arxiv.2605.06569,
  title  = {Equidistribution of Eigenfunctions of Quantum Cat Maps},
  author = {Robert Koirala},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.06569},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome

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