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Equidistribution of random waves on small balls

Spectral Theory 2019-05-15 v4 Analysis of PDEs Probability

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the small scale equidistribution properties of randomised sums of Laplacian eigenfunctions (i.e. random waves) on a compact manifold. We prove small scale expectation and variance results for random waves on all compact manifolds. Here, "small scale" refers to balls of radius r(λ)0r(\lambda)\to 0 such that r/rPlanckr/r_{\text{Planck}}\to\infty, where rPlanckr_{\text{Planck}} is the Planck scale. For balls at a larger scale (although still r(λ)0r(\lambda)\to 0) we also obtain estimates showing that the probability that a random wave fails to equidistribute decays exponentially with the eigenvalue.

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@article{arxiv.1611.05983,
  title  = {Equidistribution of random waves on small balls},
  author = {Xiaolong Han and Melissa Tacy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05983},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

No changes to major results. More detail provided on uniform equidistribution theorems

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