Berry–Tabor conjecture for Laplacian spacings on Diophantine irrational flat tori

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Let L0{\mathcal L}_0 be a Diophantine irrational lattice. Write njn_j for the distinct Laplacian eigenvalues, let δj=nj−nj−1>0\delta_j=n_j-n_{j-1}>0, let

NL0(x)=#{nj≤x},N_{{\mathcal L}_0}(x)=\#\{n_j\leq x\},

and define the mean-normalized spacings by δ^j=δj/⟨δj⟩x\hat{\delta}_j=\delta_j/\langle\delta_j\rangle_x for nj≤xn_j\leq x. Berry–Tabor conjecture. The spacings have a Poisson distribution of mean 11 as x→∞x\to\infty: for every h∈C∞(R+)h\in C^\infty(\mathbb R_+),

lim⁡x→∞1NL0(x)∑nj≤xh(δ^j)=∫0∞h(s)e−s ds.\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{1}{N_{{\mathcal L}_0}(x)}\sum_{n_j\leq x}h(\hat{\delta}_j)=\int_0^\infty h(s)e^{-s}\,ds.

This is the flat two-dimensional torus case of the Berry–Tabor conjecture for generic classically integrable quantum systems. The source presents it as an expected asymptotic and gives no evidence of a resolution, so it remains open here.

References

Primary source

Henrik Ueberschaer, “Quantum Chaos for point scatterers on flat tori”, arXiv:1212.1086 (2013).

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