Quantum Ergodicity on large hyperbolic surfaces for local and pseudolocal operators
Spectral Theory
2026-05-11 v1 Mathematical Physics
Dynamical Systems
Functional Analysis
math.MP
Abstract
We prove a quantum ergodicity theorem for sequences of closed hyperbolic surfaces converging to the Poincar\'e disc in the Benjamini-Schramm sense. Assuming a uniform lower bound on the injectivity radius and a spectral gap, we establish vanishing of quantum variance on fixed spectral windows for a class of observables that contains differential operators and finite-propagation smooth operators. This generalises a result of Le Masson and Sahlsten from scalar observables to both local and 'pseudolocal' operator settings.
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@article{arxiv.2605.07696,
title = {Quantum Ergodicity on large hyperbolic surfaces for local and pseudolocal operators},
author = {Nalini Anantharaman and Soumyajit Saha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.07696},
year = {2026}
}
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37 pages