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Non-concentration of quasimodes for integrable systems

Analysis of PDEs 2011-09-27 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We consider the possible concentration in phase space of a sequence of eigenfunctions (or, more generally, a quasimode) of an operator whose principal symbol has completely integrable Hamilton flow. The semiclassical wavefront set WFhWF_h of such a sequence is invariant under the Hamilton flow. In principle this may allow concentration of WFhWF_h along positive codimension sub-tori of a Liouville torus L\mathcal{L} if there exist rational relations among the frequencies of the flow on L.\mathcal{L}. We show that, subject to non-degeneracy hypotheses, this concentration may not in fact occur. The main tools are the spreading of Lagrangian regularity on L\mathcal{L} previously shown by Vasy and the author, and an analysis of higher order transport equations satisfied by the principal symbol of a Lagrangian quasimode.

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@article{arxiv.1008.4396,
  title  = {Non-concentration of quasimodes for integrable systems},
  author = {Jared Wunsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4396},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

One addition to acknowledgments; to appear in Comm. PDE

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