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Small scale equidistribution of eigenfunctions on the torus

Analysis of PDEs 2016-08-24 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

We study the small scale distribution of the L2L^2 mass of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the flat torus Td\mathbb T^d. Given an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions, we show the existence of a density one subsequence whose L2L^2 mass equidistributes at small scales. In dimension two our result holds all the way down to the Planck scale. For dimensions d=3,4d=3,4 we can restrict to individual eigenspaces and show small scale equidistribution in that context. We also study irregularities of quantum equidistribution: We construct eigenfunctions whose L2L^2 mass does not equidistribute at all scales above the Planck scale. Additionally, in dimension d=4d=4 we show the existence of eigenfunctions for which the proportion of L2L^2 mass in small balls blows up at certain scales.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01074,
  title  = {Small scale equidistribution of eigenfunctions on the torus},
  author = {Stephen Lester and Zeév Rudnick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01074},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Revised according to referee's comments

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