Ergodicity and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian (Q1075670)

The author proves a statement of A. Shnirel'man: Let \(M\) be a compact Riemannian manifold with ergodic geodesic flow. Let \((\phi_ k)\) denote an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator corresponding to the eigenvalues \((\lambda_ k)\). Let \(A\) be a pseudo-differential operator of order 0 with principal symbol \(a\). Then there exists a subsequence \((\lambda_{k_ i})\) such that \[ \lim <A\phi_{k_ i}, \phi_{k_ i}>=\int a\, d\omega, \] where \(<\,, \,>\) denotes the \(L^ 2\)-inner-product and \(d\omega\) the Liouville measure on the fiber of cotangent unit vectors.