Small scale equidistribution of eigenfunctions on the torus
Abstract
We study the small scale distribution of the mass of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the flat torus . Given an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions, we show the existence of a density one subsequence whose mass equidistributes at small scales. In dimension two our result holds all the way down to the Planck scale. For dimensions 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 mass does not equidistribute at all scales above the Planck scale. Additionally, in dimension we show the existence of eigenfunctions for which the proportion of 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}
}
Comments
Revised according to referee's comments