Uniform restriction conjecture for toral eigenfunctions

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Let d≥2d\geq 2 and let Σ⊂Td\Sigma\subset\mathbb T^d be a real analytic hypersurface. For an eigenfunction φλ\varphi_\lambda of the Laplacian on Td\mathbb T^d, write ∥φλ∥2\|\varphi_\lambda\|_2 for its ambient L2L^2 norm and ∥φλ∥L2(Σ)\|\varphi_\lambda\|_{L^2(\Sigma)} for its restriction norm. Uniform restriction conjecture. There is a constant CΣC_\Sigma such that all eigenfunctions satisfy

∥φλ∥L2(Σ)≤CΣ∥φλ∥2.\|\varphi_\lambda\|_{L^2(\Sigma)}\leq C_\Sigma\|\varphi_\lambda\|_2.

If moreover Σ\Sigma has nowhere vanishing curvature and λ>λΣ\lambda>\lambda_\Sigma, for some cΣ>0c_\Sigma>0 one also has

∥φλ∥L2(Σ)≥cΣ∥φλ∥2.\|\varphi_\lambda\|_{L^2(\Sigma)}\geq c_\Sigma\|\varphi_\lambda\|_2.

The statement would extend the main restriction theorem from the cases treated in the paper to arbitrary dimensions. The supplied text says that this extension remains unsettled, so the conjecture is open.

References

Primary source

Jean Bourgain and Zeev Rudnick, “Restriction of toral eigenfunctions to hypersurfaces and nodal sets”, arXiv:1105.0018 (2011).

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