Rudnick–Sarnak's quantum unique ergodicity conjecture

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Let NN be a compact Riemannian manifold with negative sectional curvature, let (Ψn)n=0(\Psi_n)_{n=0}^{\infty} be an orthonormal basis of Laplace eigenfunctions on NN, and let μn\mu_n be the Wigner measure associated to Ψn\Psi_n. Rudnick–Sarnak's quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. The Wigner measures converge weak-* to the Liouville measure:

μnnwk-*μL,N.\mu_n\xrightarrow[n\to\infty]{\operatorname{wk-*}}\mu_{L,N}.

In other words, the Liouville measure is the unique quantum limit. This strengthens quantum ergodicity, which gives convergence only along a density-one subsequence; the conjecture asserts convergence for the entire eigenbasis on negatively curved manifolds.

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Primary source

Suresh Eswarathasan and Lior Silberman, “Scarring of quasimodes on hyperbolic manifolds”, arXiv:1609.04912 (2017).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2004–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1012.1113, arXiv:1005.5598, arXiv:1004.4964, arXiv:math/0407413, arXiv:math/0402165.

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