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Semiclassical measures for complex hyperbolic quotients

Analysis of PDEs 2025-09-01 v2 Dynamical Systems Geometric Topology Spectral Theory

Abstract

We study semiclassical measures for Laplacian eigenfunctions on compact complex hyperbolic quotients. Geodesic flows on these quotients are a model case of hyperbolic dynamical systems with different expansion/contraction rates in different directions. We show that the support of any semiclassical measure is either equal to the entire cosphere bundle or contains the cosphere bundle of a compact immersed totally geodesic complex submanifold. The proof uses the one-dimensional fractal uncertainty principle of Bourgain-Dyatlov [arXiv:1612.09040] along the fast expanding/contracting directions, in a way similar to the work of Dyatlov-J\'ez\'equel [arXiv:2108.10463] in the toy model of quantum cat maps, together with a description of the closures of fast unstable/stable trajectories relying on Ratner theory.

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@article{arxiv.2402.06477,
  title  = {Semiclassical measures for complex hyperbolic quotients},
  author = {Jayadev Athreya and Semyon Dyatlov and Nicholas Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06477},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

72 pages, 3 figures; revised according to the referees' comments. To appear in GAFA

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