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Polyhedral billiards, eigenfunction concentration and almost periodic control

Analysis of PDEs 2020-06-24 v3 Dynamical Systems Spectral Theory

Abstract

We study dynamical properties of the billiard flow on convex polyhedra away from a neighbourhood of the non-smooth part of the boundary, called ``pockets''. We prove there are only finitely many immersed periodic tubes missing the pockets and moreover establish a new quantitative estimate for the lengths of such tubes. This extends well-known results in dimension 22. We then apply these dynamical results to prove a quantitative Laplace eigenfunction mass concentration near the pockets of convex polyhedral billiards. As a technical tool for proving our concentration results on irrational polyhedra, we establish a control-theoretic estimate on a product space with an almost-periodic boundary condition. This extends previously known control estimates for periodic boundary conditions, and seems to be of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09857,
  title  = {Polyhedral billiards, eigenfunction concentration and almost periodic control},
  author = {Mihajlo Cekić and Bogdan Georgiev and Mayukh Mukherjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09857},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

32 pages, a few sections reorganised and a few results added