The logarithmic quasimode threshold conjecture for QUE on hyperbolic surfaces

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Let MM be a compact hyperbolic surface, and let {ψj}\{\psi_j\} be a sequence of quasimodes with approximate spectral parameters rj→∞r_j\to\infty. Assume their quasimode widths satisfy ω(rj)=o ⁣(1log⁡rj)\omega(r_j)=o\!\left(\frac{1}{\log r_j}\right).

Logarithmic quasimode threshold conjecture. Then the sequence {ψj}\{\psi_j\} satisfies Quantum Unique Ergodicity.

The paper constructs quasimodes at logarithmic-scale widths whose microlocal lifts concentrate positive mass on a closed geodesic, so the conjectured threshold would be sharp. It identifies the scale 1/log⁡r1/\log r as the boundary between possible non-equidistribution and QUE for quasimodes.

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Shimon Brooks, “Logarithmic-scale Quasimodes that do not Equidistribute”, arXiv:1303.2484 (2013).

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