Wave invariants for non-degenerate closed geodesics (Q1380485)

After reviewing the symplectic and microlocal ingredients required to construct a ``linear model'' for the Laplacian near a closed geodesic \(\gamma\), the author introduces the semi-classically scaled Laplacian and the linearized Laplacian, and conjugates them to the model space; then, he conjugates the resulting semi-classical model Laplacian to a semi-classical normal form to infinite order and shows how this semi-classical normal form induces a bona-fide quantum Birkhoff normal form for the Laplacian near \(\gamma\). Using the normal form, he provides an explicit formula for wave invariants, and determines the quantum normal form coefficients from the special values of the obtained formula corresponding to \(\gamma\) and its iterates.