English

The defect of toral Laplace eigenfunctions and Arithmetic Random Waves

Mathematical Physics 2021-09-01 v1 math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

We study the defect (or "signed area") distribution of toral Laplace eigenfunctions restricted to shrinking balls of radius above the Planck scale, in either random Gaussian scenario ("Arithmetic Random Waves"), or deterministic eigenfunctions averaged w.r.t. the spatial variable. In either scenario we exploit the associated symmetry of the eigenfunctions to show that the expectation (Gaussian or spatial) vanishes. Our principal results concern the high energy limit behaviour of the defect variance.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2006.11644,
  title  = {The defect of toral Laplace eigenfunctions and Arithmetic Random Waves},
  author = {Par Kurlberg and Igor Wigman and Nadav Yesha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.11644},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

27 pages, 1 figure

R2 v1 2026-06-23T16:29:21.329Z