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We consider a sequence H_N of Hilbert spaces of dimensions d_N tending to infinity. The motivating examples are eigenspaces or quasi-mode spaces of a Laplace or Schrodinger operator. We define a random ONB of H_N by fixing one ONB and changing it by a random element of U(d_N). A random ONB of the direct sum of the H_N is an independent sequence {U_N} of random ONB's of the H_N. We prove that if d_N tends to infinity and if the normalized traces of observables in H_N tend to a unique limit...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2069v1
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Sep 24, 2013
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Christopher D. Sogge; Steve Zelditch
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On any compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ of dimension $n$, the $L^2$-normalized eigenfunctions $\{\phi_{\lambda}\}$ satisfy $||\phi_{\lambda}||_{\infty} \leq C \lambda^{\frac{n-1}{2}}$ where $-\Delta \phi_{\lambda} = \lambda^2 \phi_{\lambda}.$ The bound is sharp in the class of all $(M, g)$ since it is obtained by zonal spherical harmonics on the standard $n$-sphere $S^n$. But of course, it is not sharp for many Riemannian manifolds, e.g. flat tori $\R^n/\Gamma$. We say that $S^n$, but not...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103172v2
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On any compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ of dimension $n$, the $L^2$-normalized eigenfunctions ${\phi_{\lambda}}$ satisfy $||\phi_{\lambda}||_{\infty} \leq C \lambda^{\frac{n-1}{2}}$ where $-\Delta \phi_{\lambda} = \lambda^2 \phi_{\lambda}.$ The bound is sharp in the class of all $(M, g)$ since it is obtained by zonal spherical harmonics on the standard $n$-sphere $S^n$. But of course, it is not sharp for many Riemannian manifolds, e.g. flat tori $\R^n/\Gamma$. We say that $S^n$, but not...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0688v1
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Sep 20, 2013
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Michael R. Douglas; Bernard Shiffman; Steve Zelditch
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A fundamental problem in contemporary string/M theory is to count the number of inequivalent vacua satisfying constraints in a string theory model. This article contains the first rigorous results on the number and distribution of supersymmetric vacua of type IIb string theories compactified on a Calabi-Yau 3-fold $X$ with flux. In particular, complete proofs of the counting formulas in Ashok-Douglas and Denef-Douglas are given, together with van der Corput style remainder estimates. We also...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0506015v4
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Sep 19, 2013
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We consider ensembles of random polynomials of the form $p(z)=\sum_{j = 1}^N a_j P_j$ where $\{a_j\}$ are independent complex normal random variables and where $\{P_j\}$ are the orthonormal polynomials on the boundary of a bounded simply connected analytic plane domain $\Omega \subset C$ relative to an analytic weight $\rho(z) |dz|$. In the simplest case where $\Omega$ is the unit disk and $\rho=1$, so that $P_j(z) = z^j$, it is known that the average distribution of zeros is the uniform...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206162v1
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Jun 30, 2018
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We study partition functions of random Bergman metrics, with the actions defined by a class of geometric functionals known as `stability functions'. We introduce a new stability invariant - the critical value of the coupling constant - defined as the minimal coupling constant for which the partition function converges. It measures the minimal degree of stability of geodesic rays in the space the Bergman metrics, with respect to the action. We calculate this critical value when the action is the...
Topics: High Energy Physics - Theory, Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Differential Geometry
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0659
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Gaussian beams exist along all closed geodesics of a Zoll surface, despite the fact that the algorithm for constructing them assumes that the closed geodesics are non-degenerate. Similarly, there exists a global Birkhoff normal for a Zoll Laplacian despite the degeneracy. We explain why both algorithms work in the Zoll case and give an exact formula for the sub-principal normal form invariant. In the case of "maximally degenerate" Zoll Laplacians, this invariant vanishes and we obtain...
Topics: Mathematics, Spectral Theory
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2906
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This paper concerns the inverse spectral problem for analytic simple surfaces of revolution. By `simple' is meant that there is precisely one critical distance from the axis of revolution. Such surfaces have completely integrable geodesic flows with global action-angle variables and possess global quantum Birkhoff normal forms (Colin de Verdiere). We prove that isospectral surfaces within this class are isometric. The first main step is to show that the normal form at meridian geodesics is a...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002012v1
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Sep 21, 2013
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Christopher D. Sogge; Steve Zelditch
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Let $(M,g)$ be a two-dimensional compact boundaryless Riemannian manifold with nonpostive curvature, then we shall give improved estimates for the $L^2$-norms of the restrictions of eigenfunctions to unit-length geodesics, compared to the general results of Burq, G\'erard and Tzvetkov \cite{burq}. By earlier results of Bourgain \cite{bourgainef} and the first author \cite{Sokakeya}, they are equivalent to improvements of the general $L^p$-estimates in \cite{soggeest} for $n=2$ and $2
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2726v2
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We study the off-diagonal decay of Bergman kernels $\Pi_{h^k}(z,w)$ and Berezin kernels $P_{h^k}(z,w)$ for ample invariant line bundles over compact toric projective \kahler manifolds of dimension $m$. When the metric is real analytic, $P_{h^k}(z,w) \simeq k^m \exp - k D(z,w)$ where $D(z,w)$ is the diastasis. When the metric is only $C^{\infty}$ this asymptotic cannot hold for all $(z,w)$ since the diastasis is not even defined for all $(z,w)$ close to the diagonal. We prove that for general...
Topics: Complex Variables, Mathematics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08281
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Sep 21, 2013
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Michael R. Douglas; Bernard Shiffman; Steve Zelditch
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Supersymmetric vacua (`universes') of string/M theory may be identified with certain critical points of a holomorphic section (the `superpotential') of a Hermitian holomorphic line bundle over a complex manifold. An important physical problem is to determine how many vacua there are and how they are distributed. The present paper initiates the study of the statistics of critical points $\nabla s = 0$ of Gaussian random holomorphic sections with respect to a connection $\nabla$. Even the...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402326v2
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Quantized contact transformations are Toeplitz operators over a contact manifold $(X,\alpha)$ of the form $U_{\chi} = \Pi A \chi \Pi$, where $\Pi : H^2(X) \to L^2(X)$ is a Szego projector, where $\chi$ is a contact transformation and where $A$ is a pseudodifferential operator over $X$. They provide a flexible alternative to the Kahler quantization of symplectic maps, and encompass many of the examples in the physics literature, e.g. quantized cat maps and kicked rotors. The index problem is to...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002007v1
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In the recent work arXiv:1311.3999, the authors proved that real analytic manifolds $(M, g)$ with maximal eigenfunction growth must have a self-focal point p whose first return map has an invariant L1 measure on $S^*_p M$. In this addendum we add a purely dynamical argument on circle maps to improve the conclusion to: all geodesics from p are smoothly closed.
Topics: Mathematics, Spectral Theory, Analysis of PDEs
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2063
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What does it mean to quantize a symplectic map $\chi$? In deformation quantization, it means to construct an automorphism of the $*$ algebra associated to $\chi$. In quantum chaos it means to construct unitary operators $U_{\chi}$ such that $A \to U_{\chi} A U_{\chi}^*$ defines an automorphism of the algebra of observables. In geometric quantization and in PDE it means to construct a unitary Fourier integral (or Toeplitz) operator associated to the graph of $\chi$. We compare the definitions in...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307175v2
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John A. Toth; Steve Zelditch
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We consider the zeros on the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a Neumann eigenfunction $\phi_{\lambda}$ of a real analytic plane domain $\Omega$. We prove that the number of its boundary zeros is $O (\lambda)$ where $-\Delta \phi_{\lambda} = \lambda^2 \phi_{\lambda}$. We also prove that the number of boundary critical points of either a Neumann or Dirichlet eigenfunction is $O(\lambda)$. It follows that the number of nodal lines of $\phi_{\lambda}$ (components of the nodal set) which touch the...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0101v4
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This paper generalizes the methods and results of our article xxx.lanl.gov math.SP/0002036 from elliptic to general non-degenerate closed geodesics. The main purpose is to introduce a quantum Birkhoff normal form of the Laplacian at a general non-degenerate closed geodesic in the sense of V.Guillemin. Guillemin proved that the coefficients of the normal form at an elliptic closed geodesic could be determined from the wave invariants of this geodesic. We give a new proof, and extend its range to...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002037v1
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This is an updated survey on the inverse spectral problem written for the Notices of the ICCM. It rapidly reviews some of the material in the previous survey of the same title (arXiv:math/0402356) and then discusses some relatively new results (rigidity results for the ellipse, phase shifts in scattering theory). The last section poses a number of open problems involving "inverse results for oscillatory integrals".
Topics: Spectral Theory, Mathematics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02000
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We determine the limit distribution (as $\lambda \to \infty$) of complex zeros for holomorphic continuations $\phi_{\lambda}^{\C}$ to Grauert tubes of real eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a real analytic compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ with ergodic geodesic flow. If $\{\phi_{j_k} \}$ is an ergodic sequence of eigenfunctions, we prove the weak limit formula $\frac{1}{\lambda_j} [Z_{\phi_{j_k}^{\C}}] \to \frac{i}{\pi} \bar{\partial} {\partial} |\xi|_g$, where $ [Z_{\phi_{j_k}^{\C}}]$ is...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505513v4
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Jian Song; Steve Zelditch
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The space of positively curved hermitian metrics on a positive holomorphic line bundle over a compact complex manifold is an infinite-dimensional symmetric space. It is shown by Phong and Sturm that geodesics in this space can be uniformly approximated by geodesics in the finite dimensional spaces of Bergman metrics. We prove a stronger C^2-approximation in the special case of toric (i.e. S^1-invariant) metrics on CP^1.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703517v1
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Quantum ergodic restriction (QER) is the problem of finding conditions on a hypersurface $H$ so that restrictions $\phi_j |_H$ to $H$ of $\Delta$-eigenfunctions of Riemannian manifolds $(M, g)$ with ergodic geodesic flow are quantum ergodic on $H$. We prove two kinds of results: First (i) for any smooth hypersurface $H$, the Cauchy data $(\phi_j|H, \partial \phi_j|H)$ is quantum ergodic if the Dirichlet and Neumann data are weighted appropriately. Secondly (ii) we give conditions on $H$ so that...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1636v2
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The standard eigenfunctions $\phi_{\lambda} = e^{i < \lambda, x >}$ on flat tori $\R^n / L$ have $L^{\infty}$-norms bounded independently of the eigenvalue. In the case of irrational flat tori, it follows that $L^2$-normalized eigenfunctions have uniformly bounded $L^{\infty}$-norms. Similar bases exist on other flat manifolds. Does this property characterize flat manifolds? We give an affirmative answer for compact Riemannian manifolds with completely integrable geodesic flows.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002038v2
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In this addendum we strengthen the results of math-ph/0002010 in the case of polynomial phases. We prove that Cesaro means of the pair correlation functions of certain integrable quantum maps on the 2-sphere at level N tend almost always to the Poisson (uniform limit). The quantum maps are exponentials of Hamiltonians which have the form a p(I) + b I, where I is the action, where p is a polynomial and where a,b are two real numbers. We prove that for any such family and for almost all a,b, the...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002011v1
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Bernard Shiffman; Steve Zelditch
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The Newton polytope $P_f$ of a polynomial $f$ is well known to have a strong impact on its zeros, as in the Kouchnirenko-Bernstein theorem on the number of simultaneous zeros of $m$ polynomials with given Newton polytopes. In this article, we show that $P_f$ also has a strong impact on the distribution of zeros of one or several polynomials. We equip the space of (holomorphic) polynomials of degree $\leq N$ in $m$ complex variables with its usual $SU(m+1)$-invariant Gaussian measure and then...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0203074v2
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The eigenfunctions e^{i \lambda x} of the Laplacian on a flat torus have uniformly bounded L^p norms. In this article, we prove that for every other quantum integrable Laplacian, the L^p norms of the joint eigenfunctions must blow up at a rate \gg \lambda^{p-2/4p - \epsilon} for every \epsilon >0 as \lambda \to \infty.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0208045v1
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Junehyuk Jung; Steve Zelditch
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It is an open problem in general to prove that there exists a sequence of $\Delta_g$-eigenfunctions $\phi_{j_k}$ on a Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ for which the number $N(\phi_{j_k}) $ of nodal domains tends to infinity with the eigenvalue. Our main result is that $N(\phi_{j_k}) \to \infty$ along a subsequence of eigenvalues of density $1$ if the $(M, g)$ is a non-positively curved surface with concave boundary, i.e. a generalized Sinai or Lorentz billiard. Unlike the recent closely related...
Topics: Mathematics, Spectral Theory, Analysis of PDEs
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4520
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Nalini Anantharaman; Steve Zelditch
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We construct an explicit intertwining operator $\lcal$ between the Schr\"odinger group $e^{it \frac\Lap2} $ and the geodesic flow $g^t$ on certain Hilbert spaces of symbols on the cotangent bundle $T^* \X$ of a compact hyperbolic surface $\X = \Gamma \backslash \D$. Thus, the quantization Op(\lcal^{-1} a) satisfies an exact Egorov theorem. The construction of $\lcal$ is based on a complete set of Patterson-Sullivan distributions.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0867v1
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Bernard Shiffman; Steve Zelditch; Qi Zhong
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We study the conditional distribution of zeros of a Gaussian system of random polynomials (and more generally, holomorphic sections), given that the polynomials or sections vanish at a point p (or a fixed finite set of points). The conditional distribution is analogous to the pair correlation function of zeros, but we show that it has quite a different small distance behavior. In particular, the conditional distribution does not exhibit repulsion of zeros in dimension one. To prove this, we...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4166v1
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Christopher D. Sogge; Steve Zelditch
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Let $(M,g)$ be a two-dimensional compact boundaryless Riemannian manifold with Laplacian, $\Delta_g$. If $e_\lambda$ are the associated eigenfunctions of $\sqrt{-\Delta_g}$ so that $-\Delta_g e_\lambda = \lambda^2 e_\lambda$, then it has been known for some time \cite{soggeest} that $\|e_\lambda\|_{L^4(M)}\lesssim \lambda^{1/8}$, assuming that $e_\lambda$ is normalized to have $L^2$-norm one. This result is sharp in the sense that it cannot be improved on the standard sphere because of highest...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.0215v1
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Sep 23, 2013
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Renjie Feng; Steve Zelditch
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We prove that the expected value and median of the supremum of $L^2$ normalized random holomorphic fields of degree $n$ on $m$-dimensional K\"ahler manifolds are asymptotically of order $\sqrt{m\log n}$. This improves the prior result of Shiffman-Zelditch (arXiv:math/0303335) that the upper bound of the media is of order $\sqrt{\log n}$ The estimates are based on the entropy methods of Dudley and Sudakov combined with a precise analysis of the relevant pseudo-metric and its covering...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4096v1
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Sep 17, 2013
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Tatsuya Tate; Steve Zelditch
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We give asymptotic formulas for the multiplicities of weights and irreducible summands in high-tensor powers $V_{\lambda}^{\otimes N}$ of an irreducible representation $V_{\lambda}$ of a compact connected Lie group $G$. The weights are allowed to depend on $N$, and we obtain several regimes of pointwise asymptotics, ranging from a central limit region to a large deviations region. We use a complex steepest descent method that applies to general asymptotic counting problems for lattice paths...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305251v1
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This is a survey of the inverse spectral problem on (mainly compact) Riemannian manifolds, with or without boundary. The emphasis is on wave invariants: on how wave invariants have been calculated and how they have been applied to concrete inverse spectral problems.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402356v1
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It does not seem to have been observed previously that the classical Bernstein polynomials $B_N(f)(x)$ are closely related to the Bergman-Szego kernels $\Pi_N$ for the Fubini-Study metric on $\CP^1$: $B_N(f)(x)$ is the Berezin symbol of the Toeplitz operator $\Pi_N f(N^{-1} D_{\theta})$. The relation suggests a generalization of Bernstein polynomials to any toric Kahler variety and Delzant polytope $P$. When $f$ is smooth, $B_N(f)(x)$ admits a complete asymptotic expansion. Integrating it over...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2879v3
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Bernard Shiffman; Steve Zelditch
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We study the limit distribution of zeros of certain sequences of holomorphic sections of high powers $L^N$ of a positive holomorphic Hermitian line bundle $L$ over a compact complex manifold $M$. Our first result concerns `random' sequences of sections. Using the natural probability measure on the space of sequences of orthonormal bases $\{S^N_j\}$ of $H^0(M, L^N)$, we show that for almost every sequence $\{S^N_j\}$, the associated sequence of zero currents $1/N Z_{S^N_j}$ tends to the...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9803052v1
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Jian Song; Steve Zelditch
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Geodesics on the infinite dimensional symmetric space $\hcal$ of K\"ahler metrics in a fixed K\"ahler class on a projective K\"ahler manifold X are solutions of a homogeneous complex Monge-Amp\`ere equation in $X \times A$, where $A \subset \C$ is an annulus. They are analogues of 1PS (one-parameter subgroups) on symmetric spaces $G_{\C}/G$. Donaldson, Arezzo-Tian and Phong-Sturm raised the question whether Monge-Amp\`ere geodesics can be approximated by 1PS geodesics in the...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3082v3
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Jian Song; Steve Zelditch
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This article contains a detailed study, in the toric case, of the test configuration geodesic rays defined by Phong-Sturm. We show that the `Bergman approximations' of Phong-Sturm converge in C^1 to the geodesic ray and that the geodesic ray itself is C^{1,1} and no better. The \kahler metrics associated to the geodesic ray of potentials are discontinuous across certain hypersurfaces and are degenerate on certain open sets. A novelty in the analysis is the connection between Bergman metrics,...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3599v1
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Pavel Bleher; Bernard Shiffman; Steve Zelditch
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In our previous work [math-ph/9904020], we proved that the correlation functions for simultaneous zeros of random generalized polynomials have universal scaling limits and we gave explicit formulas for pair correlations in codimensions 1 and 2. The purpose of this paper is to compute these universal limits in all dimensions and codimensions. First, we use a supersymmetry method to express the n-point correlations as Berezin integrals. Then we use the Wick method to give a closed formula for the...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0011016v2
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Nalini Anantharaman; Steve Zelditch
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We relate two types of phase space distributions associated to eigenfunctions $\phi_{ir_j}$ of the Laplacian on a compact hyperbolic surface $X_{\Gamma}$: (1) Wigner distributions $\int_{S^*\X} a dW_{ir_j}= < Op(a)\phi_{ir_j}, \phi_{ir_j}>_{L^2(\X)}$, which arise in quantum chaos. They are invariant under the wave group. (2) Patterson-Sullivan distributions $PS_{ir_j}$, which are the residues of the dynamical zeta-functions $\lcal(s; a): = \sum_\gamma...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601776v2
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John A. Toth; Steve Zelditch
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This is a partly expository, partly new paper on sup norm estimates of eigenfunctions. The focus is on the quantum completely integrable case. We give a new proof of the main result of our paper ``Riemannian manifolds with uniformly bounded eigenfunctions' (Duke Math J. 111 (2002), 97-132), based on the analysis of quasi-modes and Birkhoff normal forms. We also discuss related issues of resonant normal forms and tunnelling between tori.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0202074v1
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We prove that the number of nodal domains of a density one subsequence of eigenfunctions grows at least logarithmically with the eigenvalue on negatively curved `real Riemann surfaces'. The geometric model is the same as in prior joint work with Junehyuk Jung (arXiv:1310.2919, to appear in J. Diff. Geom), where the number of nodal domains was shown to tend to infinity, but without a specified rate. The proof of the logarithmic rate uses the new logarithmic scale quantum ergodicity results of...
Topics: Spectral Theory, Mathematics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05315
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This paper contains a very simple and general proof that eigenfunctions of quantizations of classically ergodic systems become uniformly distributed in phase space. This ergodicity property of eigenfunctions f is shown to follow from a convexity inequality for the invariant states (Af,f). This proof of ergodicity of eigenfunctions simplifies previous proofs (due to A.I. Shnirelman, Colin de Verdiere and the author) and extends the result to the much more general framework of C* dynamical...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002008v1
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Sep 23, 2013
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Frank Ferrari; Semyon Klevtsov; Steve Zelditch
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The Mabuchi energy is an interesting geometric functional on the space of K\"ahler metrics that plays a crucial r\^ole in the study of the geometry of K\"ahler manifolds. We show that this functional, as well as other related geometric actions, contribute to the effective gravitational action when a massive scalar field is coupled to gravity in two dimensions in a small mass expansion. This yields new theories of two-dimensional quantum gravity generalizing the standard Liouville...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1352v2
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We consider Riemannian random waves, i.e. Gaussian random linear combination of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold with frequencies from a short interval (`asymptotically fixed frequency'). We first show that the expected limit distribution of the real zero set of a is uniform with respect to the volume form of a compact Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$. We then show that the complex zero set of the analytic continuations of such Riemannian random waves to a Grauert...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4334v1
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Renjie Feng; Steve Zelditch
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This article determines the asymptotics of the expected Riesz s-energy of the zero set of a Gaussian random systems of polynomials of degree N as the degree N tends to infinity in all dimensions and codimensions. The asymptotics are proved more generally for sections of any positive line bundle over any compact Kaehler manifold. In comparison with the results on energies of zero sets in one complex dimension due to Qi Zhong (arXiv:0705.2000) (see also [arXiv:0705.2000]), the zero sets have...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3993v1
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Sep 22, 2013
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This is part of a series of papers on the inverse spectral problem for bounded analytic plane domains. Here, we use the trace formula established in the first paper (`Balian-Bloch trace formula') to explicitly calculate wave trace invariants associated to bouncing ball orbits and dihedral rays. We use these invariants to prove that simply connected bounded analytic plane domains with one symmetry (which reverses a bouncing ball orbit of fixed length L) are spectrally determined in this class.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111078v3
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Bernard Shiffman; Steve Zelditch
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We consider the zero sets $Z_N$ of systems of $m$ random polynomials of degree $N$ in $m$ complex variables, and we give asymptotic formulas for the random variables given by summing a smooth test function over $Z_N$. Our asymptotic formulas show that the variances for these smooth statistics have the growth $N^{m-2}$. We also prove analogues for the integrals of smooth test forms over the subvarieties defined by $k
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1840v1
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Sep 18, 2013
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We give a rigorous calculation of the large N limit of the partition function of SU(N) gauge theory on a 2D cylinder in the case where one boundary holomony is a so-called special element of type $\rho$. By MacDonald's identity, the partition function factors in this case as a product over positive roots and it is straightforward to calculate the large N asymptotics of the free energy. We obtain the unexpected result that the free energy in these cases is asymptotic to N times a functional of...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305218v1
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Jul 20, 2013
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Hamid Hezari; Steve Zelditch
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We prove that ellipses are infinitesimally spectrally rigid among $C^{\infty}$ domains with the symmetries of the ellipse.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1741v3
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Sep 22, 2013
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Dmitry Jakobson; Alexander Strohmaier; Steve Zelditch
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On a compact K\"ahler manifold there is a canonical action of a Lie-superalgebra on the space of differential forms. It is generated by the differentials, the Lefschetz operator and the adjoints of these operators. We determine the asymptotic distribution of irreducible representations of this Lie-superalgebra on the eigenspaces of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Because of the high degree of symmetry the Laplace-Beltrami operator on forms can not be quantum ergodic. We show that after...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2376v1
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Sep 18, 2013
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Let ${\cal D}$ denote the class of bounded real analytic plane domains with the symmetry of an ellipse. We prove that if $\Omega_1, \Omega_2 \in {\cal D}$ and if the Dirichlet spectra coincide, $Spec(\Omega_1) = Spec(\Omega_2)$, then $\Omega_1 = \Omega_2$ up to rigid motion.
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9901005v2
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Sep 19, 2013
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We review some recent results on asymptotic properties of polynomials of large degree, of general holomorphic sections of high powers of positive line bundles over Kahler manifolds, and of Laplace eigenfunctions of large eigenvalue on compact Riemannian manifolds. We describe statistical patterns in the zeros, critical points and L^p norms of random polynomials and holomorphic sections, and the influence of the Newton polytope on these patterns. For eigenfunctions, we discuss L^p norms and mass...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0208104v2
