Spectral asymptotics for sub-Riemannian Laplacians. I: Quantum ergodicity and quantum limits in the 3-dimensional contact case (Q1700517)

The authors study the spectral asymptotics for a sub-Riemannian Laplacian on a closed 3-dimensional manifold with an oriented contact distribution. They prove a quantum ergodicity theorem for the eigenfunctions of any associated sub-Riemannian Laplacian assuming that the Reeb flow is ergodic. A second main result establishes a decomposition of any quantum limit in a sum of two mutually singular measures for which additional geometric properties are available. It is worth noticing that this second main result holds true without any ergodicity assumption.