On quantum ergodicity for vector bundles (Q2498371)

\textit{L. Silberman} and \textit{A. Venkatesh} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 17, No. 3, 960--998 (2007; Zbl 1132.81024)] constructed an equivariant microlocal lift for locally symmetric spaces (which have the form \(\Gamma\setminus G/K\), where \(G\) is a semisimple Lie group (it is tacitly assumed that \(G\) has finite center), \(K\) is a maximal compact subgroup, and \(\Gamma\) is a cocompact torsion-free discrete subgroup of \(G\), and are equipped with the Riemannian metric defined by the Killing form of \(G\)). The authors of the present paper discuss generalities concerning microlocal lifts in the general setting of closed smooth manifolds with Riemannian metrics and complex vector bundles and extend the Silberman-Venkatesh ``representation-theoretic'' lifts from complex functions to sections of bundles of the form \(\Gamma\setminus G\otimes_K V_\gamma\), where \(\gamma\) is a given unitary representation of \(K\) in the space \(V_\gamma\). This helps to lift limits of the corresponding eigenfunction measures on locally symmetric spaces to invariant measures on an appropriate bundle and thus to study the so-called quantum unique ergodicity in this more general setting.