Rudnick–Sarnak's quantum unique ergodicity conjecture
Let be a compact Riemannian manifold with negative sectional curvature, let be an orthonormal basis of Laplace eigenfunctions on , and let be the Wigner measure associated to . Rudnick–Sarnak's quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. The Wigner measures converge weak-* to the Liouville measure:
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.
References
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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