On the small-scale mass concentration of modes (Q1961082)

Let \(P_1,\dots{},P_d\) be commuting joinly-elliptic \(h\)-pseudo-differential operators on a compact manifold \(X\) of dimension \(n \geq d\). Let \(\gamma\) be the limit set of the bicharacteristic flow of the Hamiltonian \(p_1\), restricted to the variety \[ \Sigma_E = \{(x,\xi) \in T^{*}X: p_1-E_1 = \dots{} = p_d-E_d = 0\} \] where \(p_1,\dots{},p_d\) are the principal symbols of \(P_1,\dots{},P_d\) and \(E_1,\dots{},E_d\) are the corresponding energy values. The author discusses the problem on concentration estimates in \(L_2\)-norm of joint eigenfunctions of \(P_1,\dots{},P_d\) corresponding to eigenvalues \(E_1,\dots{},E_d\) in a tubular neighborhood of \(\gamma\) as \(h \rightarrow 0\).