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On the limiting behaviour of arithmetic toral eigenfunctions

Probability 2021-06-22 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

We consider a wide class of families (Fm)mN(F_m)_{m\in\mathbb{N}} of Gaussian fields on Td=Rd/Zd\mathbb{T}^d=\mathbb{R}^d/\mathbb{Z}^d defined by Fm:x1ΛmλΛmζλe2πiλ,xF_m:x\mapsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{|\Lambda_m|}}\sum_{\lambda\in\Lambda_m}\zeta_\lambda e^{2\pi i\langle \lambda,x\rangle} where the ζλ\zeta_\lambda's are independent std. normals and Λm\Lambda_m is the set of solutions λZd\lambda\in\mathbb{Z}^d to p(λ)=mp(\lambda)=m for a fixed elliptic polynomial pp with integer coefficients. The case p(x)=x12++xd2p(x)=x_1^2+\dots+x_d^2 is a random Laplace eigenfunction whose law is sometimes called the arithmetic random wave\textit{arithmetic random wave}, studied in the past by many authors. In contrast, we consider three classes of polynomials pp: a certain family of positive definite quadratic forms in two variables, all positive definite quadratic forms in three variables except multiples of x12+x22+x32x_1^2+x_2^2+x_3^2, and a wide family of polynomials in many variables. For these classes of polynomials, we study the (d1)(d-1)-dimensional volume Vm\mathcal{V}_m of the zero set of FmF_m. We compute the asymptotics, as m+m\to+\infty along certain sequences of integers, of the expectation and variance of Vm\mathcal{V}_m. Moreover, we prove that in the same limit, VmE[Vm]Var(Vm)\frac{\mathcal{V}_m-\mathbb{E}[\mathcal{V}_m]}{\sqrt{\text{Var}(\mathcal{V}_m)}} converges to a std. normal. As in previous works, one reduces the problem of these asymptotics to the study of certain arithmetic properties of the sets of solutions to p(λ)=mp(\lambda)=m. We need to study the number of such solutions for fixed mm, the number of quadruples of solutions (λ,μ,ν,ι)(\lambda,\mu,\nu,\iota) satisfying λ+μ+ν+ι=0\lambda+\mu+\nu+\iota=0, (44-correlations), and the rate of convergence of the counting measure of Λm\Lambda_m towards a certain limiting measure on the hypersurface {p(x)=1}\{p(x)=1\}. To this end, we use prior results on this topic but also prove a new estimate on correlations, of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.2106.11147,
  title  = {On the limiting behaviour of arithmetic toral eigenfunctions},
  author = {Riccardo W. Maffucci and Alejandro Rivera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11147},
  year   = {2021}
}
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