Focal points and sup-norms of eigenfunctions II: the two-dimensional case (Q346659)

The authors strengthen the main result of their paper [Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 32, No. 3, 971--994 (2016; Zbl 1361.32011)]. They use purely dynamic arguments to prove that, under some sufficient conditions, a compact real analytic surface without boundary \((M,g)\) possesses a pole, i.e., a point \(p\) so that every geodesic starting at \(p\) returns to \(p\) at time \(2T_{p}\) as a smoothly closed geodesic. Some questions for further study are also presented, e.g., whether all real analytic Riemannian surfaces with maximal eigenfunction growth are surfaces of revolution or whether the results of this paper admit some kind of generalization to higher dimensions.