Berry-type conjecture for eigenfunctions on expanding locally symmetric spaces

Let XX be the universal symmetric space and let (Mn=Γn\X)(M_n=\Gamma_n\backslash X) be a uniformly discrete expander family that BS-converges toward XX. Fix an eigenvalue λ0\lambda_0 of the Laplace operator on L2(X)L^2(X), and let δn0\delta_n\to0 be the sequence supplied by the Weyl-law proposition. Consider all eigenfunctions ϕj(n)\phi_j^{(n)} with eigenvalues λj(n)[λ0δn,λ0+δn]\lambda_j^{(n)}\in[\lambda_0-\delta_n,\lambda_0+\delta_n]. Berry-type conjecture for expander families. The collection of pairs {(Mn,ϕj(n)):λj(n)[λ0δn,λ0+δn]}\{(M_n,\phi_j^{(n)}):\lambda_j^{(n)}\in[\lambda_0-\delta_n,\lambda_0+\delta_n]\} is relatively compact in the BS topology; its accumulation points are random fields on XX, and the only possible aperiodic accumulation point is the isotropic monochromatic Gaussian random wave on XX with eigenvalue λ0\lambda_0. This is a locally symmetric-space analogue of Berry's conjecture, motivated by results on eigenvectors of random regular graphs; the source presents it as provocative and does not state a resolution.

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Miklos Abert, Nicolas Bergeron and Etienne Le Masson, “Eigenfunctions and Random Waves in the Benjamini-Schramm limit”, arXiv:1810.05601 (2022).

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