Improved Generalized Periods estimates on Riemannian Surfaces with Nonpositive Curvature

Publication date 27 November 2017

Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Harmonic analysis and PDEs (42B37) Relations between spectral theory and ergodic theory, e.g., quantum unique ergodicity (58J51)

Abstract: We show that on compact Riemann surfaces of negative curvature, the generalized periods, i.e. the

u

-th order Fourier coefficient of eigenfunctions

e_{l} a m b d a

over a period geodesic

g a m m a

goes to 0 at the rate of

O ((l o g l a m b d a)^{- 1 / 2})

, if

0 < u < c_{0} l a m b d a

, given any

0 < c_{0} < 1

. No such result is possible for the sphere

S^{2}

or the flat torus

m a t h b b T^{2}

. Combined with the quantum ergodic restriction result of Toth and Zelditch, our results imply that for a generic closed geodesic

g a m m a

on a compact hyperbolic surface, the restriction

e_{l a m b d a_{j}} |_{g} a m m a

of an orthonormal basis

e_{l a m b d a_{j}}

has a full density subsequence that goes to zero weakly in

L^{2} (g a m m a)

. Our proof consists of a further refinement of a recent paper by Sogge, Xi and Zhang on the geodesic period integrals (

u = 0

), which featured the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem as a key quantitative tool to avoid geodesic rectangles on the universal cover of

M

. In contrast, we shall employ the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem to quantitatively avoid geodesic parallelograms. The use of Gauss-Bonnet also enables us to weaken our curvature condition, by allowing the curvature to vanish at an averaged rate of finite type.

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