Sharp bandwidth exponent conjecture for surfaces of revolution

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Let S∈S\mathcal{S}\in\mathfrak{S}, let ε>0\varepsilon>0, and let KK be a compact subset of S\mathcal{S} at distance at least ε\varepsilon from both the poles and the equator. Let Pλ,δP_{\lambda,\delta} be the spectral projector in the paper.

Sharp bandwidth conjecture. The main projector estimate should hold for

δ≥λ−1/3,∣Pλ,δ∣L2(S)→L∞(K)≲S,ελ1/2δ1/2.\delta\geq\lambda^{-1/3},\qquad \\|P_{\lambda,\delta}\\|_{L^2(\mathcal{S})\to L^\infty(K)}\lesssim_{\mathcal{S},\varepsilon}\lambda^{1/2}\delta^{1/2}.

Furthermore, the lower bound of the cited corollary should also hold up to λ−1/3\lambda^{-1/3}. For any S\mathcal{S}, the exponent 1/31/3 is conjectured to be optimal: the main estimate should fail at scales λ−τ\lambda^{-\tau} for every τ>1/3\tau>1/3. This is the paper's conjectural optimal improvement of the proved exponent 1/321/32, away from the poles and equator.

References

Primary source

Ambre Chabert, “Bounds for quasimodes with polynomially narrow bandwidth on surfaces of revolution”, arXiv:2502.00143 (2026).

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