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Planck-scale mass equidistribution of toral Laplace eigenfunctions

Number Theory 2017-08-02 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the small scale distribution of the L2L^2-mass of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the the two-dimensional flat torus. Given an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions, Lester and Rudnick showed the existence of a density one subsequence whose L2L^2-mass equidistributes more-or-less down to the Planck scale. We give a more precise version of their result showing equidistribution holds down to a small power of log above Planck scale, and also showing that the L2L^2-mass fails to equidistribute at a slightly smaller power of log above the Planck scale. This article rests on a number of results about the proximity of lattice points on circles, much of it based on foundational work of Javier Cilleruelo.

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@article{arxiv.1612.07819,
  title  = {Planck-scale mass equidistribution of toral Laplace eigenfunctions},
  author = {Andrew Granville and Igor Wigman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07819},
  year   = {2017}
}

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