Percival's conjecture for mixed dynamical systems

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Let MM be a compact Riemannian manifold with flow domain D\mathcal{D}, and suppose that D\mathcal{D} is the disjoint union of two invariant subsets UU and D∖U\mathcal{D}\setminus U, where UU is ergodic and D∖U\mathcal{D}\setminus U is integrable. Let (uk)k∈N(u_k)_{k\in\mathbb{N}} be a complete system of eigenfunctions of the Laplace--Beltrami operator. Percival's conjecture. There exist subsets A,B⊂NA,B\subset\mathbb{N} such that

A∪B has density 1,A\cup B\text{ has density }1,

(uk)k∈A(u_k)_{k\in A} equidistributes in the ergodic region UU, every semiclassical measure associated to the subset BB is supported in the completely integrable region D∖U\mathcal{D}\setminus U, and

dens⁡(A)=μL(U).\operatorname{dens}(A)=\mu_L(U).

This conjecture predicts a spectral decomposition reflecting the ergodic and integrable components of a mixed dynamical system. In particular, the natural densities of the two subsets of eigenfunctions should be proportional to the Liouville measures of the corresponding invariant regions; the paper presents the Bunimovich mushroom billiard as a model case where a satisfactory general analogue of quantum ergodicity is not yet known.

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Sean Gomes, “Percival's Conjecture for the Bunimovich Mushroom Billiard”, arXiv:1504.07332 (2016).

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