Bourgain's eigenfunction bounds on the three-dimensional torus

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Let uu be an eigenfunction of the Laplacian −Δ-\Delta on T3\mathbb{T}^3 with eigenvalue λ2\lambda^2. Bourgain's eigenfunction conjecture. One should have

∥u∥Lp≲ϵ{λ12−3p+ϵ∥u∥L2if p≥6,lambdaϵ∥u∥L2if p≤6.\|u\|_{L^p}\lesssim_\epsilon\begin{cases}\lambda^{\frac12-\frac3p+\epsilon}\|u\|_{L^2}&\text{if }p\geq6,\\lambda^\epsilon\|u\|_{L^2}&\text{if }p\leq6.\end{cases}

The loss λϵ\lambda^\epsilon might be unnecessary when p<∞p<\infty. This is the eigenfunction specialization of the spectral-projector problem and concerns sharp LpL^p growth for toral eigenfunctions. The supplied text does not give a resolution status, so the conjecture remains open here.

References

Primary source

Pierre Germain, Simon L. Rydin Myerson and Daniel Pezzi, “Bounds for spectral projectors on the three-dimensional torus”, arXiv:2508.05573 (2025).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2205.13611, arXiv:2110.05486, arXiv:1206.0493, arXiv:math/0608109.

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