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Interface Asymptotics of Wigner-Weyl Distributions for the Harmonic Oscillator

Mathematical Physics 2019-04-01 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We prove several types of scaling results for Wigner distributions of spectral projections of the isotropic Harmonic oscillator on Rd\mathbb R^d. In prior work, we studied Wigner distributions W,EN()(x,ξ)W_{\hbar, E_N(\hbar)}(x, \xi) of individual eigenspace projections. In this continuation, we study Weyl sums of such Wigner distributions as the eigenvalue EN()E_N(\hbar) ranges over spectral intervals [Eδ(),E+δ()][E - \delta(\hbar), E + \delta(\hbar)] of various widths δ()\delta(\hbar) and as (x,ξ)TRd(x, \xi) \in T^*\mathbb R^d ranges over tubes of various widths around the classical energy surface ΣETRd\Sigma_E \subset T^*\mathbb R^d. The main results pertain to interface Airy scaling asymptotics around ΣE\Sigma_E, which divides phase space into an allowed and a forbidden region. The first result pertains to δ()=\delta(\hbar) = \hbar widths and generalizes our earlier results on Wigner distributions of individual eigenspace projections. Our second result pertains to δ()=2/3\delta(\hbar) = \hbar^{2/3} spectral widths and Airy asymptotics of the Wigner distributions in 2/3\hbar^{2/3}-tubes around ΣE\Sigma_E. Our third result pertains to bulk spectral intervals of fixed width and the behavior of the Wigner distributions inside the energy surface, outside the energy surface and in a thin neighborhood of the energy surface.

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@article{arxiv.1903.12524,
  title  = {Interface Asymptotics of Wigner-Weyl Distributions for the Harmonic Oscillator},
  author = {Boris Hanin and Steve Zelditch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.12524},
  year   = {2019}
}

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v1: 24p., 2 figs