Small scale equidistribution of eigenfunctions on the torus

preprint2016arXivOpen access

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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