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Semiclassical second microlocal propagation of regularity and integrable systems

Analysis of PDEs 2011-03-29 v2 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We develop a second-microlocal calculus of pseudodifferential operators in the semiclassical setting. These operators test for Lagrangian regularity of semiclassical families of distributions on a manifold XX with respect to a Lagrangian submanifold of TX.T^*X. The construction of the calculus, closely analogous to one performed by Bony in the setting of homogeneous Lagrangians, proceeds via the consideration of a model case, that of the zero section of TRn,T^*\mathbb{R}^n, and conjugation by appropriate Fourier integral operators. We prove a propagation theorem for the associated wavefront set analogous to H\"ormander's theorem for operators of real principal type. As an application, we consider the propagation of Lagrangian regularity on invariant tori for quasimodes (e.g. eigenfunctions) of an operator with completely integrable classical hamiltonian. We prove a secondary propagation result for second wavefront set which implies that even in the (extreme) case of Lagrangian tori with all frequencies rational, provided a nondegeneracy assumption holds, Lagrangian regularity either spreads to fill out a whole torus or holds nowhere locally on it.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0826,
  title  = {Semiclassical second microlocal propagation of regularity and integrable systems},
  author = {Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0826},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Updated with an erratum, detailing an error in the proof of Corollary 6.2 and substituting a weaker result. The erratum now precedes the bulk of the manuscript in the pdf file

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