Joint quasimodes, positive entropy, and quantum unique ergodicity (Q464830)

The authors study questions of Quantum Unique Ergodicity (QUE) for joint quasimodes of the Laplacian and one Hecke operator on compact congruence surfaces. They provide criteria on the order of quasimodes which imply positive entropy on almost every ergodic component of the corresponding semiclassical measure, which (by results from the second author [Ann. Math. (2) 163, No. 1, 165--219 (2006; Zbl 1104.22015)]) implies QUE for such functions. The methods used are influenced by those developed in [the authors, Isr. J. Math. 193, 1--14 (2013; Zbl 1317.05110)] in the context of eigenfunctions of large regular graphs. Furthermore, it is shown that similar methods can also be used to study equidistrubition problems for joint quasimodes of the two partial Laplacians on \(\Gamma \backslash \mathbb{H} \times \mathbb{H}\), for \(\Gamma\) a co-compact irreducible lattice in \(\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb R)\times\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb R)\).