Scarring of quasimodes on hyperbolic manifolds

Abstract: Let

N

be a compact hyperbolic manifold,

M s u b s e t N

an embedded totally geodesic submanifold, and let

- h b a r^{2} D e l t a_{N}

be the semiclassical Laplace--Beltrami operator. For any

v a r e p s i l o n > 0

, we explicitly construct families of emph{quasimodes} of spectral width at most

v a r e p s i l o n f r a c h b a r | l o g h b a r |

which exhibit a "strong scar" on

M

in that their microlocal lifts converge weakly to a probability measure which places positive weight on

S^{*} M

(

h o o k r i g h t a r r o w S^{*} N

). An immediate corollary is that emph{any} invariant measure on

S^{*} N

occurs in the ergodic decomposition of the semiclassical limit of certain quasimodes of width

v a r e p s i l o n f r a c h b a r | l o g h b a r |

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