Small gaps in the spectrum of the rectangular billiard

DOI10.24033/ASENS.2645zbMATH1405.35120OpenAlexW2338863159WikidataQ102179647MaRDI QIDQ4601161FDOQ4601161

Authors Valentin Blomer, Maksym Radziwiłł, Jean Bourgain, Zeév Rudnick

Publication date 12 January 2018

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02413

zbMATH Keywords

Chebyshev polynomialsDiophantine approximationRiemann zeta-functionDirichlet polynomialsPoisson statisticssmall gapsdivisibility sequencerectangular billard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates on exponential sums (11L07) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) General binary quadratic forms (11E16) Homogeneous approximation to one number (11J04)

Abstract: We study the size of the minimal gap between the first N eigenvalues of the Laplacian on a rectangular billiard having irrational squared aspect ratio $alpha$, in comparison to the corresponding quantity for a Poissonian sequence. If $alpha$ is a quadratic irrationality of certain type, such as the square root of a rational number, we show that the minimal gap is roughly of size 1/N, which is essentially consistent with Poisson statistics. We also give related results for a set of $alpha$'s of full measure. However, on a fine scale we show that Poisson statistics is violated for all $alpha$. The proofs use a variety of ideas of an arithmetical nature, involving Diophantine approximation, the theory of continued fractions, and results in analytic number theory.

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