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Ergodic billiards that are not quantum unique ergodic

Analysis of PDEs 2008-12-04 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Partially rectangular domains are compact two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds XX, either closed or with boundary, that contain a flat rectangle or cylinder. In this paper we are interested in partially rectangular domains with ergodic billiard flow; examples are the Bunimovich stadium, the Sinai billiard or Donnelly surfaces. We consider a one-parameter family XtX_t of such domains parametrized by the aspect ratio tt of their rectangular part. There is convincing theoretical and numerical evidence that the Laplacian on XtX_t with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions is not quantum unique ergodic (QUE). We prove that this is true for all t[1,2]t \in [1,2] excluding, possibly, a set of Lebesgue measure zero. This yields the first examples of ergodic billiard systems proven to be non-QUE.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0666,
  title  = {Ergodic billiards that are not quantum unique ergodic},
  author = {Andrew Hassell and Luc Hillairet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0666},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

11 pages, 1 figure. The paper, authored by Andrew Hassell, now includes an appendix by Andrew Hassell and Luc Hillairet, extending the result to all partially rectangular billiards

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